The impact of Incentives on Participants

By Brent G

Creative and risk-taking individuals are encouraged to participate by lottery rewards Creative and risk-taking individuals are encouraged to participate by lottery rewards

Donation rewards may be more effective at attracting prosocial individuals and behaviors Donation rewards may be more effective at attracting prosocial individuals and behaviors

Diverse rewards may help attract diverse participant Diverse rewards may help attract diverse participant

For some rewards, the amount matters; for some rewards, the amount does not For some rewards, the amount matters; for some rewards, the amount does not

Reference Hsieh, G., & Kocielnik, R. (2016, February). You get who you pay for: The impact of incentives on participation bias. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (pp. 823-835). ACM.
Author(s)
Brent Gruenke

HCDE Student