Look! A healthy neighborhood: Means to motivate participants in using an app for monitoring community health

Participatory data collection relies on the commitment<br/>of the participants to report data continuously, which<br/>makes providing incentives to people crucial. In this<br/>case study, we describe how we designed a web app by<br/>using different incentive mechanisms to collect<br/>participatory data for monitoring community health.<br/>The insights we gathered through evaluating the<br/>prototype in focus groups and the lessons we learned<br/>about sustaining motivation and interest are discussed<br/>in the paper. We expect that these lessons would be<br/>useful for other participatory sensing projects that aim<br/>for constant and systematic data contribution from a<br/>large group of people.