2 papers
cs.SI2017
Determining Impact of Social Media Badges through Joint Clustering of Temporal Traces and User Features
Tomasz Kusmierczyk, Kjetil Nørvåg
Badges are a common, and sometimes the only, method of incentivizing users to perform certain actions on online sites. However, due to many competing factors influencing user tempo…
cs.SI2017
Harnessing Natural Experiments to Quantify the Causal Effect of Badges
Tomasz Kusmierczyk, Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez
A wide variety of online platforms use digital badges to encourage users to take certain types of desirable actions. However, despite their growing popularity, their causal effect…