{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Exploring the Effects of Goal Setting When Training for Complex Crowdsourcing Tasks (Extended Abstract)","authors":[{"name":"Amy Rechkemmer","slug":"amy-rechkemmer","given":"Amy","family":"Rechkemmer","affiliation":""},{"name":"Ming Yin","slug":"ming-yin","given":"Ming","family":"Yin","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"Training is one way of enabling novice workers to work on complex crowdsourcing tasks. Based on goal setting theory in psychology, we conduct a randomized experiment to study whether and how setting different goals---including performance goal, learning goal, and behavioral goal---when training workers for a complex crowdsourcing task affects workers' learning perception, learning gain, and post-training performance. We find that setting different goals during training significantly affects workers' learning perception, but does not have an effect on learning gain or post-training performance. Further, exploratory analysis helps shed light on when and why various goals may or may not work in the crowdsourcing context.","doi":"10.24963/ijcai.2021/658","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2021/658","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2021/0658.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2021/658.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2021/bibtex/658","volume":{"slug":"2021","title":"Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2021","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2021/","year":2021,"location":"Montreal","dates":"19-27 August 2021","editors":"Prof. Zhi-Hua Zhou","isbn":"978-0-9992411-9-6","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization","doi_prefix":"10.24963/ijcai.2021"},"section":"Sister Conferences Best Papers","track":"Sister Conferences Best Papers","number":658,"pages":{"first":4819,"last":4823},"keywords":["Humans and AI: Human Computation and Crowdsourcing"],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}