Incentives to Participation

Found this in an article a while ago. Figured it might be useful in designing our game.

Incentives to participation

In different human-based computation projects people are motivated by:

• Receiving a fair share of the result
• Direct monetary compensation
• Desire to diversify their activity
• Aesthetic satisfaction
• Curiosity, desire to test if it works
• Volunteerism, desire to support a cause of the project
• Reciprocity, exchange, mutual help
• Desire to be entertained with the competitive spirit of a game
• Desire to communicate and share knowledge
• Desire to share a user innovation to see if someone else can improve on it
• Desire to game the system and influence the final result

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-based_computation