No matter how busy your day is, we know that we need time out to relax. Maybe those places of relaxation are at the cafe, the beach, a park or at the wharf. Wherever you end up, we know that your wind-down place is possibly one of your favourite places - a hidden secret and a much-loved location tucked away in your little box of secrets.
We would like to know where that favourite place is and invite you to help us understand what makes a favourite place your favourite place!
This website offers twelve different versions of the "My Favourite Place" application. As part of our experiment, please click on the versions that you have been assigned to review and help us understand what makes certain locations a favourite place for many people.
Our favourite places are places that create a sense of place attachment, place identity and place dependence. What's your favourite place? Check out our activities and tell us where they would be!
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The 12 interfaces below provide different versions of the "My Favourite Place" application in which we test various user interface design principles, gamification elements, VGI data collection and crowdsourcing activities in order to determine what motivates participants to contribute quality and quantity of data.
This version is the comparison against all other versions and would help give you an idea as to why the other versions are different.
Websites can be a little boring if there isn't much colour in there. Browse through this website and experience a world full of colour!
Now try the opposite of colour ... No colour! In this website you will notice a dark, drabby interface that might make things somewhat flat for you!
The interactive version makes a website more intuitive as users interact with the website. This feature, interactivity, changed the static website into something more modern and fun.
This version reflects websites that have static pages and do not have much to offer.
A visible version is a version that describes task descriptions clearly, simply without having the user confused as to what to do next.
This version provides no task descriptions and leaves the user to find out what to do next without clearly explaining what is required of them. Try this website and see whether you would be able to work things out or not.
Gamifying "My Favourite Place" is what this version is all about! If you want to play some games, try this version when you are getting tired or bored.
This version adds a bit more gamification methods. Try this website and see whether it made a difference from Incentive Scheme 1.
This game gets better so have a go.
This version focuses on content within the maps, such as the buildings, streets and rivers. Highlighting these objects helps us to locate our favourite places alot more quickly.
Maps are made much more enjoyable when adding images, animation, markers, icons, and pop-up markers. Take a look at our maps and tell us whether they were interesting, boring, confusing, helpful and pleasant.