@inproceedings{446a3c81234d4ee784f7b791bd8a363f,
title = "Show me the money! An analysis of project updates during crowdfunding campaigns",
abstract = "Hundreds of thousands of crowdfunding campaigns have been launched, but more than half of them have failed. To better understand the factors affecting campaign outcomes, this paper targets the content and usage patterns of project updates-communications intended to keep potential funders aware of a campaign's progress. We analyzed the content and usage patterns of a large corpus of project updates on Kickstarter, one of the largest crowdfunding platforms. Using semantic analysis techniques, we derived a taxonomy of the types of project updates created during campaigns, and found discrepancies between the design intent of a project update and the various uses in practice (e.g. social promotion). The analysis also showed that specific uses of updates had stronger associations with campaign success than the project's description. Design implications were formulated from the results to help designers better support various uses of updates in crowdfunding campaigns.",
keywords = "Crowdfunding, Crowdsourcing, Updates",
author = "Anbang Xu and Xiao Yang and Huaming Rao and Fu, {Wai Tat} and Huang, {Shih Wen} and Bailey, {Brian P.}",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1145/2556288.2557045",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781450324731",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "591--600",
booktitle = "CHI 2014",
address = "United States",
note = "32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2014 ; Conference date: 26-04-2014 Through 01-05-2014",
}