Wanted: More Nails for the Hammer an Investigation into the Application of Human Computation

Abstract

Researchers studying human computation and crowdsourcing know it as a useful tool for solving data analysis problems. Outside of this community, however, we ask the question 'how many people with data analysis problems know how to use human computation and crowdsourcing?' In this paper, we observe trends in academic papers on the topic of human computation and crowdsourcing, conduct a survey, and examine the growth of the human computation and crowdsourcing market by researching recent market reports in order to test the hypothesis that human computation and crowdsourcing is not a widely used tool despite its usefulness for problem solving.

Meeting Name

1st AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, HCOMP 2013 (2013: Nov. 6-9, Palm Springs, CA)

Department(s)

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Sponsor(s)

Amazon.com; Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence; Facebook; Google; Microsoft Research

Keywords and Phrases

Tools; Academic paper; Analysis problems; Crowdsourcing; Human computation; Commerce

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

978-1577356318

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

Document Version

Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2013 AI Access Foundation, All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Nov 2013

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