Incentive-centered design
[1] ICD is often considered when designing a system to induce desirable behaviors from users, such as participation and cooperation.
ICD has been gaining attention in research communities due to the role it can play in helping systems benefit their users and ultimately achieve better results.
The program aimed to train, research, and outreach to modern information systems through an incentive-centered design approach.
In 2004, Paul Resnick, one of the four faculty members in the STIET research group of Michigan coined the phrase "Incentive-centered Design" to describe the type of work they did.
[4] From 2010 to 2015, approximately fifty British academics engaged in the ORCHID project, with one of their chief aims being to elaborate the principles of ICD (referred to as "incentive engineering").
[5] ICD works to understand the objectives of the user and the system and combine and process information so that both parties obtain optimal results.
[7] Examples would include users uploading their own videos on the YouTube platform, posting reviews on a website, etc.
The final requirement is that the creation is outside of professional routines and practices - most user-generated content is non-professional and have no relation with anything institutional or commercial.
Examples would include Amazon and eBay, where customers who purchase the item are able to rate and review the quality of the product.
Social computing entails a high level of community formation, user content creation, and collective action.
The program has made significant contributions to the field of incentive-centered design, and a lot of the research involves game theory models, strategic interaction, and rational decision making.
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