Low effort crowdsourcing: Leveraging peripheral attention for crowd work

Author

Vaish RAJAN
Peter ORGANISCIAK
Kotaro HARA, Singapore Management UniversityFollow
Jeffrey P. BIGHAM
Haoqi ZHANG

Publication Type

Conference Poster

Version

submittedVersion

Publication Date

1-2015

Abstract

Crowdsourcing systems leverage short bursts of focusedattention from many contributors to achieve a goal. Byrequiring people’s full attention, existing crowdsourcingsystems fail to leverage people’s cognitive surplus in themany settings for which they may be distracted, performingor waiting to perform another task, or barely payingattention. In this paper, we study opportunities for loweffortcrowdsourcing that enable people to contribute toproblem solving in such settings. We discuss the designspace for low-effort crowdsourcing, and through a seriesof prototypes, demonstrate interaction techniques, mechanisms,and emerging principles for enabling low-effortcrowdsourcing.

Discipline

Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

Poster Proceedings of HCOMP 2014

Citation

RAJAN, Vaish; ORGANISCIAK, Peter; HARA, Kotaro; BIGHAM, Jeffrey P.; and ZHANG, Haoqi. Low effort crowdsourcing: Leveraging peripheral attention for crowd work. (2015). Poster Proceedings of HCOMP 2014.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4011

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