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Welcome to My Favourite Place

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.

Travelling to our favourite places

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!

Video produced from Johanna Richardson. Copyright © 2019. All rights reserved.



Selection of interfaces for you to review!

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.

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Interface A: Standard Version

This version is the comparison against all other versions and would help give you an idea as to why the other versions are different.

screen image of a coloured cube with a black and white photo background

Interface B: Colourful Versions

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!

black and white photo

Interface C: Non-Colourful Version

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!

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Interface D: Interactive Version

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.

photo of a robot

Interface E: Non-Interactive Version

This version reflects websites that have static pages and do not have much to offer.

photo of woman reading a tablet

Interface F: Visible Version

A visible version is a version that describes task descriptions clearly, simply without having the user confused as to what to do next.

photo of side car mirror with rain dewdrops

Interface G: Non-Visible Version

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.

photo of government gardens

Interface H: Incentive Scheme 1 Version

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.

Sulfur in Rotorua

Interface I: Incentive Scheme 2 Version

This version adds a bit more gamification methods. Try this website and see whether it made a difference from Incentive Scheme 1.

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Interface J: Incentive Scheme 3 Version

This game gets better so have a go.

photo of government gardens

Interface K: Map Content Rich VGI Version

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.

photo of government gardens

Interface L: Key Content Rich Version

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.