This Website Uses Nudging: MTurk Workers' Behaviour on Cookie Consent Notices

On nudging and informed consent--four key undefended premises.

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Nudging, Shaming and Stigmatising to Improve Population Health; Comment on “Nudging by Shaming, Shaming by Nudging”

Nudges are small, often imperceptible changes to how particular decisions present themselves to individuals that are meant to influence those decisions. In his editorial, ‘Nudging by shaming, shaming by nudging’, Eyal highlights links between nudges and feelings of shame on the part of the ‘chooser’. In this commentary, I suggest two further distinctions between different types of shame-based n...

The Impact of Culture on Website Navigation Behaviour

The web offers unprecedented opportunities for worldwide access to information resources, regardless of the user’s country of origin. However, providing information globally raises the question of whether to offer a standardized or a culturally adapted website, often connected to important investment decisions. To investigate the impact of users’ cultural backgrounds, we derived hypotheses conc...

TurKit: Human Computation Algorithms on MTurk

MTurk provides an on-demand source of human computation. This provides a tremendous opportunity to explore algorithms which incorporate human computation as a function call. However, various systems challenges make this difficult in practice, and most uses of MTurk post large numbers of independent tasks. TurKit is a toolkit for prototyping and exploring algorithmic human computation, while mai...