Lured Into Listening: Engaging Games as an Alternative to Reward-Based Crowdsourcing in Music Research

Abstract

This brief statement revisits some earlier observations on what makes web-based experiments, and especially citizen science using engaging games, an attractive alternative to laboratory-based setups. It suggests web-based experimenting to be a full-grown alternative to traditional laboratory-based experiments, especially in the field music cognition, where sampling bias is a common problem and large amounts of empirical data are needed to characterize individual variability.