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Title Factors affecting crowd participation time in crowsourcing contest

Author(s) Muhammad Awais

Abstract The crowd is generally considered as a group of people who gather for the same cause but are not generally related or interconnected to each other. While a software crowdsourcing contest can be regarded as one of the newly invented and highly innovative modes of crowdsourcing, it is also considered to be one of the highly accepted setup for an organization to announce and implement an open call of their desired task online. Crowd participation time is one of the main reason that plays an essential role in completion of the task. Researches based on solver participation in crowdsourcing contests proved to be helpful in comprehension and manageability of the motivations of solvers to take part in the online software crowdsourcing platform. So, what could be the strategy to attract more participants to participate in the contest and motivate them to put in more effort and time, is the main focus of this research work. Previous studies have been found to measure the submission rate in order to figure out the rate of solvers participation in software contest. They are lacking in formulation of the feasible suggestions on the average rate of participation effort, payout by a participant in software development tasks such as bug fixing and interface evaluation. This research has been conducted through SLR followed by the expert review approach. SLR has been conducted to extract factors that affect participation time from existing literature, and subsequently, the identified factors went through an expert review for validation of these identified factors. A list of factors has been identified that will be helpful for industry practitioners and for academicians to update their researches in the field of crowdsourcing. Monetary rewards, communication and coordination, task understandability, and task documentation were found to have considerable impact on participation time in software crowdsourcing contests. The research opens the gate for futuristic research, seeking ways to formulate how crowd participation of web developers and mobile app developers is affected.

Type Thesis/Dissertation MS

Faculty Engineering and Computer Science

Department Computer Science

Language English

Publication Date 2021-09-24

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