eprintid: 1459491 rev_number: 35 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/45/94/91 datestamp: 2015-01-02 04:58:22 lastmod: 2021-10-07 22:09:32 status_changed: 2016-01-20 14:55:06 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Jennett, C creators_name: Furniss, D creators_name: Iacovides, I creators_name: Wiseman, S creators_name: Gould, SJJ creators_name: Cox, AL title: Exploring Citizen Psych-Science and the Motivations of Errordiary Volunteers ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B02 divisions: C07 divisions: D05 divisions: F70 divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: F48 note: © 2014, Jennet et al. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. abstract: Although virtual citizen science projects have the potential to engage large networks of people in science research, seeding and maintaining such networks can be difficult. A feature of successful projects is that they have well-motivated volunteers. What makes volunteers motivated rather than apathetic? In this paper we focus on projects that contribute to psychology research, which we term ‘citizen psych-science’. This differs from typical citizen science because volunteers are asked to contribute themselves as data. We describe research studies that we conducted with Errordiary – a citizen psych-science project where volunteers tweet about their everyday experiences of human error. These studies were: (1) an interview study, to explore the motivations of eight Errordiary volunteers; and (2) three focus groups, to explore the potential of attracting new communities to Errordiary. We found that the personal nature of the data can influence participation in positive and negative ways. We suggest several factors that scientists need to consider when encouraging citizen psych-science volunteers to contribute their personal experiences towards research. date: 2014 official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.15346/hc.v1i2.10 vfaculties: VFBRS oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green article_type_text: Article verified: verified_manual elements_source: Manually entered elements_id: 1001061 doi: 10.15346/hc.v1i2.10 lyricists_name: Cox, Anna lyricists_name: Furniss, Dominic lyricists_name: Gould, Alexander lyricists_name: Iacovides, Ioanna lyricists_name: Jennett, Charlene lyricists_name: Wiseman, Sarah lyricists_id: ACOXX11 lyricists_id: DJFUR55 lyricists_id: AJJGO51 lyricists_id: IIACO82 lyricists_id: CIJEN65 lyricists_id: SWISE26 full_text_status: public publication: Human Computation volume: 1 number: 2 pagerange: 200 - 218 pages: 18 citation: Jennett, C; Furniss, D; Iacovides, I; Wiseman, S; Gould, SJJ; Cox, AL; (2014) Exploring Citizen Psych-Science and the Motivations of Errordiary Volunteers. Human Computation , 1 (2) 200 - 218. 10.15346/hc.v1i2.10 <https://doi.org/10.15346/hc.v1i2.10>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1459491/1/Exploring%20Citizen%20Psych%20Science%20Errordiary%20Motivations%20%28Jennett%20et%20al.%252C%202014%29.pdf