Does it matter how you play? The effects of collaboration and competition among players of human computation games.
Human computation games (HCGs) harness human intelligence through enjoyable gameplay to address computational problems that are beyond the power of computer programs but trivial for humans. With the popularity of crowdsourcing, different types of HCGs have been developed using various gameplay mecha...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology Vol. 68; no. 8; pp. 1823 - 1836 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2017
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