M-GWAP: An Online and Multimodal Game With A Purpose in WordPress for Mental States Annotation
This provides a tool for researchers or practitioners needing mental states annotations, but it is incremental as it adapts existing game-with-a-purpose concepts to a new domain and platform.
The paper tackles the problem of annotating multimedia data for mental states by introducing M-GWAP, a multimodal game with a purpose developed in WordPress, which leverages crowd wisdom and motivational strategies like scoring and ranking systems to engage players, resulting in a deployed version after alpha and beta testing.
M-GWAP is a multimodal game with a purpose of that leverages on the wisdom of crowds phenomenon for the annotation of multimedia data in terms of mental states. This game with a purpose is developed in WordPress to allow users implementing the game without programming skills. The game adopts motivational strategies for the player to remain engaged, such as a score system, text motivators while playing, a ranking system to foster competition and mechanics for identify building. The current version of the game was deployed after alpha and beta testing helped refining the game accordingly.