Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
SETI@home: an experiment in public-resource computing
Communications of the ACM
Information Systems Research
Volunteer computing
Using social psychology to motivate contributions to online communities
CSCW '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
BOINC: A System for Public-Resource Computing and Storage
GRID '04 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing
Becoming Wikipedian: transformation of participation in a collaborative online encyclopedia
GROUP '05 Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
Motivating participation by displaying the value of contribution
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The Computational and Storage Potential of Volunteer Computing
CCGRID '06 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
What goes around comes around: an analysis of del.icio.us as social space
CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Encouraging participation in virtual communities
Communications of the ACM - Spam and the ongoing battle for the inbox
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Exploring social dynamics in online media sharing
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
An empirical analysis of open source software developers' motivations and continuance intentions
Information and Management
Communications of the ACM
Performance Evaluation of Scheduling Policies for Volunteer Computing
E-SCIENCE '07 Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing
What drives content tagging: the case of photos on Flickr
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
User loyalty and online communities: why members of online communities are not faithful
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on INtelligent TEchnologies for interactive enterTAINment
Knowledge sharing and yahoo answers: everyone knows something
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
Harnessing the wisdom of crowds in wikipedia: quality through coordination
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Pathfinder: an online collaboration environment for citizen scientists
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Coordination in collective intelligence: the role of team structure and task interdependence
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
How and why people Twitter: the role that micro-blogging plays in informal communication at work
Proceedings of the ACM 2009 international conference on Supporting group work
Something for nothing: management rejection of open source software in Australia's top firms
Information and Management
Analysis of participation in an online photo-sharing community: A multidimensional perspective
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
GridOrbit: an infrastructure awareness system for increasing contribution in volunteer computing
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Why do we converse on social media?: an analysis of intrinsic and extrinsic network factors
WSM '11 Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGMM international workshop on Social media
Dynamic changes in motivation in collaborative citizen-science projects
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Personality-targeted design: theory, experimental procedure, and preliminary results
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Comparing the use of social networking and traditional media channels for promoting citizen science
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Investigating mobile crowdsensing application performance
Proceedings of the third ACM international symposium on Design and analysis of intelligent vehicular networks and applications
Motivating participation in online innovation communities
International Journal of Web Based Communities
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Volunteer computing is a powerful way to harness distributed resources to perform large-scale tasks, similarly to other types of community-based initiatives. Volunteer computing is based on two pillars: the first is computational - allocating and managing large computing tasks; the second is participative - making large numbers of individuals volunteer their computer resources to a project. While the computational aspects of volunteer computing received much research attention, the participative aspect remains largely unexplored. In this study we aim to address this gap: by drawing on social psychology and online communities research, we develop and test a three-dimensional model of the factors determining volunteer computing users' contribution. We investigate one of the largest volunteer computing projects - SETI@home - by linking survey data about contributors' motivations to their activity logs. Our findings highlight the differences between volunteer computing and other forms of community-based projects, and reveal the intricate relationship between individual motivations, social affiliation, tenure in the project, and resource contribution. Implications for research and practice are discussed.