Participants’ motivations to contribute to biodiversity citizen science projects
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- Subject Areas
- Bioinformatics, Social Computing, Spatial and Geographic Information Systems
- Keywords
- Motivations, Citizen Science, Questionnaire, Biodiversity, Mobile Application
- Copyright
- © 2018 Lotfian et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2018. Participants’ motivations to contribute to biodiversity citizen science projects. PeerJ Preprints 6:e27198v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27198v1
Abstract
The public participation in scientific projects (citizen science) is significantly increasing specially with technology developments in recent years. Volunteers play an essential role in citizen science projects, therefore understanding their motivations, and understanding how to sustain them to keep contributing to the project are of utmost importance. This paper presents the analysis of volunteers’ characteristics and their motivations to contribute to a citizen science project, which aims at encouraging citizens to take action for biodiversity. The results from the online survey illustrate that people are more motivated by intrinsic nature-related motives rather than extrinsic motivations.
Author Comment
This submission is intended for the OGRS'2018 Collection