Title
Modeling Sharing Decision of Campus Safety Reports and Its Design Implications to Mobile Crowdsourcing for Safety
Abstract
Current campus communication regarding safety-related issues can be improved for both efficiency and accessibility. We observed a unique opportunity to develop a mobile crowdsourcing system, which allows university community members to report safety related incidents to the campus police department and to share their reports with other users of the system. To better inform the design of such a system, we applied drift-diffusion models in cognitive psychology to model the effect of various factors on users' sharing tendency. We conducted a laboratory experiment with 30 participants. We also ran an MTurk study with 230 participants to explore the feature of anonymous sharing in the application design. In this paper we report various results, including the findings that the time of day, location, and type of crime each affects the likelihood and timeliness of sharing safety reports in several different ways. We also discuss the implications for design of mobile crowdsourcing systems for public safety in general.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2785830.2785889
international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices & services
Field
DocType
Citations 
Time of day,Internet privacy,Computer science,Crowdsourcing,Laboratory experiment,Decision model
Conference
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
11
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yun Huang19212.01
Corey White262.67
Huichuan Xia3133.08
Yang Wang439461.44