Overview
- Shows how to enable collaboration to utilize crowdsourcing for complex tasks that go beyond simple micro-tasks.
- Demonstrates the current context in which creative crowdsourcing takes place and examines what is needed to enable it to solve complex problems
- Presents synergies between crowds and machines that can allow for the handling of complex macro-tasks
- Investigates the social implications for policy makers and citizens
Part of the book series: Human–Computer Interaction Series (HCIS)
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Crowdsourcing is an emerging paradigm that promises to transform several domains: creative work, business work, cultural cooperation, etc. Crowdsourcing reflects the close-knit interplay between the latest computer technologies, the rapidly changing work model of the 21st century, and the very nature of people. The interplay makes for an exciting but at the same time challenging new field to investigate under the lens of a diverse set of disciplines, ranging from the technical to the social and from the theoretical to the applied.
Early research has focused on an aspect of crowdsourcing known as micro-tasking. Micro-tasks are simple tasks (like image annotations) that anyone could perform. An emerging area is how to utilize crowdsourcing to solve problems that go beyond simple tasks towards more complex ones, that require collaboration and creativity. In juxtaposition to micro-task crowdsourcing, this book investigates macro-task crowdsourcing and its potential.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Coordination and Cooperation
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The Role of AI and Experts
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Macrotask Crowdsourcing
Book Subtitle: Engaging the Crowds to Address Complex Problems
Editors: Vassillis-Javed Khan, Konstantinos Papangelis, Ioanna Lykourentzou, Panos Markopoulos
Series Title: Human–Computer Interaction Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12334-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12333-8Published: 14 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12336-9Published: 15 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-12334-5Published: 06 August 2019
Series ISSN: 1571-5035
Series E-ISSN: 2524-4477
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 275
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour
Topics: User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Management of Computing and Information Systems