Supporting sustained willingness to share knowledge with visual feedback

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Highlights：

• The more knowledge shared the higher motivation among heavy contributors.

• Social comparison visuals with an achievable goal resulted in greater motivation.

• Visuals with a distant upward goal resulted in significantly less contribution.

• Non-comparative visuals yielded a negative impact on motivation.

摘要

•The more knowledge shared the higher motivation among heavy contributors.•Social comparison visuals with an achievable goal resulted in greater motivation.•Visuals with a distant upward goal resulted in significantly less contribution.•Non-comparative visuals yielded a negative impact on motivation.

论文关键词：Community-based crowdsourcing,Knowledge sharing,Visual feedback,Social comparison theory,Cognitive evaluation theory

论文评审过程：Received 27 April 2015, Revised 7 August 2015, Accepted 24 August 2015, Available online 2 September 2015, Version of Record 2 September 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.08.034