The PDI crowd system for ANTZ

The ubiquity of the Internet and the widespread proliferation of electronic devices has resulted in flourishing microtask crowdsourcing marketplaces, such as Amazon MTurk. An aspect that has remained largely invisible in microtask crowdsourcing is that ...

Within the scope of this PhD proposal, we set out to investigate two pivotal aspects that influence the effectiveness of crowdsourcing: (i) microtask design, and (ii) workers behavior. Leveraging the dynamics of tasks that are crowdsourced on the one ...

Although the traits emerged in a mass gathering are often non-deliberative, the act of mass impulse may lead to irrevocable crowd disasters. The two-fold increase of carnage in crowd since the past two decades has spurred significant advances in the ...