Banca de DEFESA: ANA MARIA PARANHOS DE AMORIM

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : ANA MARIA PARANHOS DE AMORIM
DATE: 13/10/2022
TIME: 08:30
LOCAL: Virtual (online)
TITLE:

Investigating Crowdsourcing Systems: Project Design and People Motivation Perspectives

KEY WORDS:

Crowdsourcing, Crowdsourcing Motivation, Crowdsourcing Process, Older Adults.

PAGES: 159
BIG AREA: Ciências Exatas e da Terra
AREA: Ciência da Computação
SUBÁREA: Metodologia e Técnicas da Computação
SPECIALTY: Sistemas de Informação
SUMMARY:

Crowdsourcing is a new concept associated with problem-solving where the crowd is its main element. Knowing what drives this audience to engage in crowdsourcing projects is a challenge, as is building projects that attract this audience. Our studies focused on two aspects. First, in the investigation of the planning and development of crowdsourcing projects, and second in the identification of the factors that lead people to collaborate with these projects. Crowdsourcing has a dynamic structure where knowledge, problem- solving, and sometimes decision-making can be attributed to unknown members of the crowd. These unique characteristics of crowdsourcing must be considered in its building process. In this thesis, our goal is to investigate crowdsourcing systems from two perspec- tives. From the developer’s perspective, we investigated the construction of crowdsourc- ing. And from the user’s perspective, we investigated the factors that motivate users to collaborate on these projects. To achieve this goal, we carried out several studies, using an exploratory qualitative research method. The investigation of the construction process and the investigation of the users’ motivation followed the same procedures: (i) studies selected by literature review, and (ii) semi-structured interviews with developers and users. As the older adults’ population is constantly growing and is little studied in tech- nological field, our motivation study focused on this public. We conducted interviews with 46 older adults over 60 years of age. The interviews’ analysis suggest that older adults are motivated by dynamic tasks, which stimulate their curiosity, increase their knowledge and skills, tasks that help them to care for their physical and mental health and, mainly, by tasks related to altruistic causes. With the results of the studies, we proposed a process model for the construction of crowdsourcing and a motivation model aimed at older adults, both to be used as a guide by managers and software developers.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2049039 - VANINHA VIEIRA DOS SANTOS
Interna - 1708274 - RITA SUZANA PITANGUEIRA MACIEL
Externa à Instituição - ADRIANA SANTAROSA VIVACQUA - UFRJ
Externa à Instituição - LUCIANA CARDOSO DE CASTRO SALGADO - UFF
Externa à Instituição - LETÍCIA DOS SANTOS MACHADO - UFVJM