Original paper
Galaxy Zoo: Exploring the Motivations of Citizen Science Volunteers
Abstract
The Galaxy Zoo citizen science website invites anyone with an Internet connection to participate in research by classifying galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. As of April 2009, more than 200,000 volunteers had made more than 100 million galaxy classifications. In this paper, we present results of a pilot study into the motivations and demographics of Galaxy Zoo volunteers, and define a technique to determine motivations from free...
Paper Details
Title
Galaxy Zoo: Exploring the Motivations of Citizen Science Volunteers
Published Date
Dec 1, 2010
Journal
Volume
9
Issue
1
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