To Three or not to Three: Improving Human Computation Game Onboarding with a Three-Star System
summary
Added a three-star UI to 31 Foldit onboarding levels and randomly assigns new users to no-star, three-star, or three-star with forced reset; logs from 626 players over a week show the stars cut extra moves roughly in half (and further with the forced reset), increase time spent per move, and double the rate players replay completed levels. The stars do not increase total play time, levels completed, or return rate, so the system changes behavior but does not improve retention.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:19Human Computation Games
- 0:57ThreeStar Systems
- 1:19Existing Work
- 2:09Citizen Science
- 2:51The ThreeStar System
- 3:55Hypothesis
- 4:42Experiment
- 6:36First Hypothesis
- 7:14Second Hypothesis
- 7:43Third Hypothesis
- 7:59Conclusion
- 8:40Future Research
- 9:06Questions
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