Encouraging pro-social behavior in geo-aware communities

Your paper did a really great job presenting the motivation
for pro-social behavior. I never really thought about how to implement social
presence as a key motivator but your discussions and examples on footprints and
tracking really convinced me that it is possible to create a mechanism that
encourages that.

Another idea that may provide an extrinsic motivator is to select
a “best location of the week” announcement. By picking out the best
contributions, the community members will have a reference as to what “pro-social”
behavior to model after and having it weekly will give incentives for people to
contribute more frequently.

I’ve never discovered www.yellowarrow.com
nor www.geocaching.com but after
visiting them I feel they are really cool ideas and will check them out later.
Great pick for project study.