Follow the Crowd

Call for Papers CrowdWork’13

Markus Krause — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:28:18 +0000

The International Workshop on Crowdwork and Human Computation CrowdWork’13 is a workshop held at the 3rd International Conference on Social Computing (SCA). We invite scientists and practitioners to submit their papers. The paper deadline is June 1st. http://socialcloud.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/workshops/CrowdWork/ Call for Paper In … Continue reading →

The Crowd at HICSS 2013 Series – #4

John Prpić — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:55:13 +0000

CROWDSOURCING CRITICAL THINKING One of the challenges in using social media technologies, such as Twitter, for disaster response is that information that can help save lives is buried under the sea of other information and misinformation. This was the case … Continue reading →

The Crowd at HICSS 2013 Series – #3

John Prpić — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:15:42 +0000

Information Exchange in Prediction Markets: How Social Networks Promote Forecast Efficiency in Proceedings of the Hawai’i International Conference on System Science 2013 Liangfei Qiu - Department of Economics - University of Texas at Austin Huaxia Rui - Simon School of Business - University of … Continue reading →

The Remixing Dilemma: The Trade-Off Between Generativity and Originality

Benjamin Mako Hill — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:56:05 +0000

Proponents of remix culture often frame remixing in terms of rich ecosystems where creative works are novel and highly generative. However, examples like this can be difficult to find. Although there is a steady stream of media being shared freely … Continue reading →

The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System: How Wikipedia’s reaction to sudden popularity is causing its decline

halfak — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:00:10 +0000

Summary (TL;DR): To deal with the massive influx of new editors between 2004 and 2007, Wikipedians built automated quality control tools and solidified their rules of governance. In our paper, we observe that these reasonable and effective strategies for maintaining … Continue reading →

The Crowd at HICSS 2013 Series – #2

John Prpić — Sat, 11 May 2013 12:15:50 +0000

The Theory of Crowd Capital in Proceedings of the Hawai’i International Conference on System Science 2013 John Prpić & Prashant Shukla Beedie School of Business Simon Fraser University We are seeing more and more organizations undertaking activities to engage dispersed … Continue reading →

Warping Time for More Effective Real-Time Crowdsourcing

Walter Lasecki — Fri, 10 May 2013 17:19:20 +0000

REAL-TIME TRANSCRIPTION is a vital accommodation for deaf and heard of hearing people in their daily lives. Captioning is typically expensive due to the years of training that is required. LEGION:SCRIBE introduced a method that used multiple non-experts to caption … Continue reading →

Don’t Hide in the Crowd! Increasing Social Transparency Between Peer Workers Improves Crowdsourcing Outcomes

Shih-Wen Huang — Wed, 08 May 2013 19:43:30 +0000

Although crowdsourcing is a useful social computing technique, its unreliability has greatly undermined its utility. In this study, we found that carefully manipulating the social transparency and various peer-dependent reward schemes can successfully motivate crowds to generate high-quality work. Previous … Continue reading →

The Crowd at HICSS 2013 Series – #1

John Prpić — Fri, 03 May 2013 21:07:29 +0000

Motivation and data quality in a citizen science game: A design science evaluation in Proceedings of the Hawai’i International Conference on System Science 2013 Kevin Crowston & Nathan R. Prestopnik School of Information Studies Syracuse University Citizen science is a … Continue reading →

CommunityCompare: Visually Comparing Communities for Online Community Leaders in the Enterprise

Anbang Xu — Wed, 01 May 2013 16:00:45 +0000

We introduce CommunityCompare, a visual analytic system to enable online community leaders to make sense of their community’s activity with comparisons. Emma, an online community leader, wants to learn how she might increase member visits (views) by looking at example communities that … Continue reading →