Patterns of Participation and Motivation in Folding@home: The Contribution of Hardware Enthusiasts and Overclockers
Folding@home is a distributed computing project in which participants run protein folding simulations on their computers. Participants complete work units and are awarded points for their contribution. An investigation into motivations to participate and patterns of participation revealed the signif...
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| Language: | English |
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Ubiquity Press
2018-04-01
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| Series: | Citizen Science: Theory and Practice |
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| Online Access: | https://theoryandpractice.citizenscienceassociation.org/articles/109 |