Crowdsourcing and Creativity
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In studying creativity and techniques for enhancing the creative process, we utilized crowdsourcing through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Through our studies we found that in its current form, the Mechanical Turk platform has some limitations in supporting creative tasks. In this position paper, we describe our studies and give recommendations for crowdsourcing platforms that foster creativity.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011