Incentive Engineering Framework for Crowdsourcing Systems

TL;DR

This paper proposes a systematic framework for designing incentives in crowdsourcing systems to effectively motivate users and achieve desired behaviors, addressing a key challenge in the field.

Contribution

It introduces a general, systematic incentive engineering framework for crowdsourcing systems, aiding designers in implementing effective motivational incentives.

Findings

Framework provides a structured approach to incentive design

Facilitates implementation of targeted user behaviors

Addresses a key challenge in crowdsourcing motivation

Abstract

Significant effort has been made to understand user motivation and to elicit user participation in crowdsourcing systems. However, incentive engineering, i.e., designing incentives that can purposefully motivate users, is still an open question and remains one of the key challenges of crowdsourcing initiatives. In this work in progress, we propose a general and systematic incentive engineering framework that system designers can use to implement appropriate incentives in order to effect desirable user behaviours.