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GridOrbit: Enhancing Volunteer Computing Contributions

Explore how GridOrbit, an infrastructure awareness system, boosts participation in volunteer computing. Learn about the smart notifications and public displays aiding this increase in contribution levels. Dive into strategies and insights discussed in the study.

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GridOrbit: Enhancing Volunteer Computing Contributions

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  1. GridOrbit – An Infrastructure awareness System For increasing contribution in volunteercomputing Juan David Hincapié-Ramos, AurélienTabard& Jakob E. Bardram May 11, 2011 – CHI 2011 – Vancouver, Canada

  2. GridOrbitPersonal Notifications GridOrbit Public Display Mini-Grid

  3. GridOrbit Public Display

  4. GridOrbitPersonal Notifications

  5. What did awareness systems lead to? Increased Participation

  6. GridOrbit – An Infrastructure awareness System For increasing contribution in volunteercomputing Juan David Hincapié-Ramos, AurélienTabard& Jakob E. Bardram

  7. GridOrbit – An Infrastructure awareness System For increasing contribution in volunteercomputing Juan David Hincapié-Ramos, AurélienTabard& Jakob E. Bardram

  8. Problem Data deluge and scientific computational analyses alternatives: Big PC: takes a lot of time Local servers: expensive in man-power and $ Grid computing / Cyber-Infrastructures Volunteer computing infrastructures SETI@HOME World communitygrid

  9. The Mini-Gridvolunteer infrastructure Local vs. Worldwide Symetricvs. Master-Slave Lowcost

  10. Problem of volunteercomputing Invisibility

  11. How do we get people to participate to the Mini-Grid? A local VolunteerComputing infrastructure meanswecanleverageexisting social ties!

  12. Fieldwork and Partipatory Design Details in the paper… Grid Capacity Grid Activity People

  13. GridOrbit Public Displays Notification System 1 2

  14. GridOrbit Building 1: Corridor in front of the Cafeteria Building 2: Elevator +Mail BoxWaitingArea 1 GRIDORBIT PUBLIC DISPLAYS

  15. research folding DNA biology GRIDORBIT PUBLIC DISPLAYS

  16. GridOrbit Ambient Zone (x > 70cm) Notification Zone (40cm < x < 70cm) Interaction Zone (x < 40cm) GRIDORBIT PUBLIC DISPLAYS

  17. Group Activation Personal Motivation You contributed 12% less than other contributors this week You contributed for less than 40 hours to the Mini-Grid this week 2x 2 GRIDORBIT Notification System

  18. Experimental Design Goals 1- See what the impact of theseawarnesstechnologies is in the recruitment of volunteers. 2- Gatherempirical information about the relation of users and theseawarenesstechnologies. 1- See what the impact of theseawarnesstechnologies is in the recruitment of volunteers. 2- Gatherempirical information about the relation of users and theseawarenesstechnologies.

  19. Experimental Design BASELINE NOTIFICATION SYSTEM Public Displays Novelty Factor PUBLIC DISPLAYS Mini-Grid Baseline Computers Official Start

  20. Experimental Design Jun 2Wed Jun 14Mon Jun 21Fri Jul 2Fri BASELINE NOTIFICATION SYSTEM Public Displays Novelty Factor PUBLIC DISPLAYS Mini-Grid Baseline Computers Official Start

  21. Results

  22. Increase in Contributions +75% 35 Mini-Grid installed 19 +51% AVG Computers Contributing 8,02 5,33 Notification System Public Displays Baseline

  23. Types of Contributors • Dedicated Secondary Computers • Work Desktops • Laptops (intermittent use) • Bootstrapping Computers

  24. Δt = 1500 Visits to the public displays Aware60% of the Visits Ambient Zone Curious30% of the Visits Int + Notification Zone - Touch Interaction Explorer 10% of the Visits Interaction Zone + Touch Interaction

  25. Visits to the public displays - + # Visits Activity Capacity

  26. OtherResults Face Time! From: Participant XDate: Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:51 PM Subject: Re: GridOrbit hide details 6/16/10 Hi Juan I got the plugin installed and the whole thing should be up and running. Now I just need to figure out how I can get my picture on the screen in the main building... Do I need to set up some profile somewhere or something like that? Cheers

  27. NoResults The on-screenmessagingfunctionality (bulleting board) was not used. Wesawonly 5 messages for the wholedeployment. We did not find anysignificantimpact of the differentnotificationsstrategies.

  28. Conclusions Awareness Technologies can support recruitment 75%increase in total participants, and 51%increase in hourlyaverage participants Different patters of contribution of work desktops, secondary computers and laptops. Therearesustainedpatterns of visitors: aware, curious, explorer. Design for stressing out activitylevels. Find proper ways to scalevisualizations.

  29. Thanks @jhincapie @aurelient @jbardram

  30. Strategies for increasing contribution Stick Force participation: hidden daemon installed by admins Infrastructure properties: you can only use it if you donate Carrot Rewards Competitions Beyond stick and carrot Persuasive technologies Awareness technologies

  31. Motivations

  32. Visits to the public displays sig <= 0,1 10% - Explorer 30% - Curious 60% - Aware + + + Nr of Visits - - - Activity Capacity

  33. Free Pizza 1 2 3 Enforcement Points and Rewards

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