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Motivational Principles And Personalisation Needs For Geo-Crowdsourced Intangible Cultural Heritage Mobile Applications, Federica Lucia Vinella, Ioanna Lykourentzou, Konstantinos Papangelis

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Whether it’s for altruistic reasons, personal gains, or third party’s interests, users are influenced by different kinds of motivations when making use of mobile geo-crowdsourcing applications (geoCAs). These reasons, extrinsic and/or intrinsic, must be factored in when evaluating the use intention of these applications and how effective they are. A functional geoCA, particularly if designed for Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), is the one that persuades and engages its users, by accounting for their diversity of needs across a period of time. This paper explores a number of proven and novel motivational factors destined for the preservation and collection of Intangible …