NotisMe!: Crowdsourced Student Tasks Reminder with Gamification

Students, tasks and time is inextricably linked. Each student is required to complete their tasks or assignments within a given period of time. However, for a certain number of students, they do not notice that there is a task that has been assigned to them and they lack motivation to finish the task given by lecturers. Therefore, the aim of the developed application is to increase students’ awareness of the task that has been assigned to them and increase the students’ motivation in finishing the task given to them. Mobile Application Life Cycle (MADLC) model has been chosen as the methodology for this project because it is frequently used in developing a mobile application. Gamification which consists of several game elements such as challenges, rewards, points, and badges are implemented in the application. The platform chosen for the application is android mobile-based platform. This project is about a mobile application that reminds students about tasks using the techniques of crowdsourcing and gamification. This application is a reminder application that allows users to share assigned tasks with their groups and reward users in term of badges for adding the tasks and completing them. Functionality testing has been carried out for the developed application. The outcome of the test is successful as all the twenty-two test cases is passed. Further improvement can be added to the application, for instance, add features like chat and leader board to the application. In conclusion, the application has been successfully developed and all the objectives have been accomplished

Generic crowdsourcing model for holistic innovation management

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The Gamification of Crowdsourcing Systems: Empirical Investigations and Design

Recent developments in modern information and communication technologies have spawned two rising phenomena, gamification and crowdsourcing, which are increasingly being combined into gamified crowdsourcing systems. While a growing number of organizations employ crowdsourcing as a way to outsource tasks related to the inventing, producing, funding, or distributing of their products and services to the crowd – a large group of people reachable via the internet – crowdsourcing initiatives become enriched with design features from games to motivate the crowd to participate in these efforts. From a practical perspective, this combination seems intuitively appealing, since using gamification in crowdsourcing systems promises to increase motivations, participation and output quality, as well as to replace traditionally used financial incentives. However, people in large groups all have individual interests and motivations, which makes it complex to design gamification approaches for crowds. Further, crowdsourcing systems exist in various forms and are used for various tasks and problems, thus requiring different incentive mechanisms for different crowdsourcing types. The lack of a coherent understanding of the different facets of gamified crowdsourcing systems and the lack of knowledge about the motivational and behavioral effects of applying various types of gamification features in different crowdsourcing systems inhibit us from designing solutions that harness gamification’s full potential. Further, previous research canonically uses competitive gamification, although crowdsourcing systems often strive to produce cooperative outcomes. However, the potentially relevant field of cooperative gamification has to date barely been explored. With a specific focus on these shortcomings, this dissertation presents several studies to advance the understanding of using gamification in crowdsourcing systems