Quantifying the Invisible Labor in Crowd Work

Scaffolding Crowd Work

Crowd Work CV: Recognition for Micro Work

With an increasing micro-labor supply and a larger available workforce, new microtask platforms have emerged providing an extensive list of marketplaces where microtasks are offered by requesters and completed by crowd workers. The current microtask crowdsourcing infrastructure does not offer the possibility to be recognised for already accomplished and offered work in different microtask platf...

Adaptive Performance Optimization over Crowd Labor Channels

We describe a system which monitors the performance of labor channels within a crowdsourcing platform in an online manner. This allows us to automatically determine if and when to switch between labor channels in order to improve overall performance of crowd tasks.

Harnessing the Crowd: Decontextualizing Software Work

Organizing software work into self-contained, low-context microtasks opens new opportunities for software development, reducing the barriers to contribute to software work and enabling software projects to be more fluid. Achieving this vision requires understanding the role of context in software development and designing new approaches for managing context.

How to Work a Crowd: Developing Crowd Capital Through Crowdsourcing

Traditionally, the term ‘crowd’ was used almost exclusively in the context of people who selforganized around a common purpose, emotion, or experience. Today, however, firms often refer to crowds in discussions of how collections of individuals can be engaged for organizational purposes. Crowdsourcing–defined here as the use of information technologies to outsource business responsibilities to ...