Crowdsourcing synchronous spectator support: (go on, go on, you're the best)n-1

Franco Curmi; Maria Angela Ferrario; Jon Whittle; Florian 'Floyd' Mueller

doi:10.1145/2702123.2702338

Crowdsourcing synchronous spectator support: (go on, go on, you're the best)^n-1

Franco Curmi, Maria Angela Ferrario, Jon Whittle, Florian 'Floyd' Mueller

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Abstract

Many studies have shown that crowd-support, such as cheering during sport events, can have a positive impact on athletes' performance. However, up until recently this support was only possible if the supporters and the athletes were geographically co-located. Can cheering be done remotely and would this be effective? In this paper we investigate the effect and possibilities of live remote cheering on co-located athletes and online supporting crowds that have a weak social tie and no social tie with the athlete. We recruit 140 online spectators and 5 athletes for an ad-hoc 5km road race. Results indicate that crowds socially closer to the athletes are significantly more engaged in the support. The athletes were excited by live remote cheering from friendsourced spectators and cheering from unknown crowdsourced participants indicating that remote friends and outsourced spectators could be an important source of support.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Editors	Kori Inkpen, Woontack Woo
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	757-766
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450331456
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702338
Publication status	Published - 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2015 - Seoul, Korea, South Duration: 18 Apr 2015 → 23 Apr 2015 Conference number: 33rd https://chi2015.acm.org/ https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/2702123 (Proceedings)

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2015
Abbreviated title	CHI 2015
Country/Territory	Korea, South
City	Seoul
Period	18/04/15 → 23/04/15
Internet address	https://chi2015.acm.org/ https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/2702123 (Proceedings)

Keywords

Broadcast
Cheering
Crowdsourcing
Friendsourcing
Human behavior
Social networks
Spectator support
Spectators
Sports

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Curmi, F, Ferrario, MA, Whittle, J & Mueller, FF 2015, Crowdsourcing synchronous spectator support: (go on, go on, you're the best)^n-1. in K Inkpen & W Woo (eds), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 757, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY USA, pp. 757-766, International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2015, Seoul, Korea, South, 18/04/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702338

Crowdsourcing synchronous spectator support: (go on, go on, you're the best)^n-1. / Curmi, Franco; Ferrario, Maria Angela; Whittle, Jon et al.
Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ed. / Kori Inkpen; Woontack Woo. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2015. p. 757-766 757.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review

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