Making work fun : investigating antecedents of perceived enjoyment in human computation games for information sharing

• Main Authors: Pe-Than, Ei Pa Pa, Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian, Lee, Chei Sian
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Motivation; DRNTU::Business::General::Social aspects; DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Information systems::Information systems applications
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/105897; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/20953; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.06.023
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The advent of online games, crowdsourcing, and user-generated content has led to the emergence of a new paradigm called the Human Computation Game (HCG) which utilizes games as a motivator to encourage users’ participation in human computation. HCGs are different from games for pure entertainment wh...