A6WeLovePeaches

A6WeLovePeaches

To-Do

1. study the document “Projects for the HCC Foundation Course” (in “Students’ Projects” on the Wiki)
2. select a project that is of real interest to you
3. find collaborators and form a group of peers (such a group may already exist) with whom you will work on the project
4. sign up for the project (if it is still available) on the site “Students’ Projects”
5. identify parts of the project and an initial role distribution between your team members
6. each team member should contribute
   1. a brief rational what she/he finds interesting
   2. what she/he plans to do to get started on the project

Which project did you select?

Project-7: A Framework for “What Motivates People to Participate?

Describe the parts of the project you have identified and the initial role distribution among your team members

For each team member, provide a brief rational what she/he finds interesting

Andrew- With all of the new technological tools of today’s modern society, collaborative design is growing more popular than ever. The idea that any average person can contribute information to many of the popular open-source sites grabs my attention in respect to motivation and adding incites to Wiki pages and such. One comment that I had found was that many people just want to feel satisfied with showing off what they know and what they have done. Some even like to be simply the first to contribute information, even if it is incorrect in a study by Eric S Raymond; he had called it “prestige” (http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-accountability/wikipedia_2882.jsp). Another reason to look at ‘what motivates people’ to interact with technology is the idea of learner-centered design, where people are more motivated to learn something if it can spawn interest with the user. I once heard a kid in a video game store complaining about his poor scores in school, but was still looking for the newest game when he asked, “do you have any educational games, so I can do better in school?” The man at the counter said, “Read a book.” I assume that the kid doesn’t like reading, but loves video games. So if there were a way to implement the two together, maybe another student would be motivated to read more if he needed to earn more ‘points’ per say.

Jason

Joanne

Leon

Myung - There is an old saying "A genius can't win one who does his best, a person who tries his best can't win the one who enjoys what he does." What it basically means, people tend to be more efficient with what they are motivated in. And I was wondering how people get motivated which may motivate me as well, because I am the person who gets hardly motivated.

For each team member, provide a statement of what she/he plans to do to get started on the project

Andrew- I plan to start this project by researching what was driving people to be motivated to work or learn before the internet was such a success. Initially, I think that I will try to find books that are used for motivation and see if they contradict what compels people to respond to open-sourced websites. Also, I would like to begin by finding pre-existing programs that might have been used for teaching aids in the past, but are now out of date or in need of an update. The general idea of the programs that I wanted to look at

where educational game related, maybe programs like MathBlaster or Oregon Trail. Another thing to look at is an incentive program, because people

work harder when something is on the line.

Jason

Joanne

Leon

Myung- First, I will survey the people that I know about how they are motivated by if they have to participate on something, and analyze what would be the factor that motivates people the most.