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Participants’ motivations to contribute to biodiversity citizen science projects

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1 GIS-Lab, School of Engineering and Management Vaud, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Yverdon les-Bains, Switzerland
2 University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Media Engineering Institute, Yverdon les-Bains, Switzerland
3 Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, UNIL, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.27198v1
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Subject Areas
Bioinformatics, Social Computing, Spatial and Geographic Information Systems
Keywords
Motivations, Citizen Science, Questionnaire, Biodiversity, Mobile Application
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© 2018 Lotfian et al.
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Lotfian M, Ingensand J, Ertz O, Composto S, Oberson M, Oulevay S, Campisi D, Joerin F. 2018. Participants’ motivations to contribute to biodiversity citizen science projects. PeerJ Preprints 6:e27198v1

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.

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Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Maryam Lotfian conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, prepared figures and/or tables, performed the computation work, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper.

Jens Ingensand conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Olivier Ertz conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, prepared figures and/or tables.

Sarah Composto conceived and designed the experiments, performed the computation work.

Mathias Oberson conceived and designed the experiments, performed the computation work.

Simon Oulevay conceived and designed the experiments, performed the computation work.

David Campisi conceived and designed the experiments.

Florent Joerin conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables.

Data Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

https://github.com/mlotfian/Questionnaire

Funding

This work was supported by HES-SO, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Western Switzerland. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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