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The key question addressed in this section is, why do people participate in human computation systems and how can high-quality participation be encouraged? This can be decomposed into more focused questions: What draws them to participate? What motivates them, drives them to keep working or contributing? How does this differ with respect to different types of human computation systems? How do you improve the quality of the participation? Can one design a system to guide the participants to provide highest quantity and best quality output? Is there an inherent tradeoff between quantity and quality?
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Mason, W. (2013). Participation. In: Michelucci, P. (eds) Handbook of Human Computation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8806-4_53
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