Crowdsourcing marketplaces like Amazon’sMechanical Turk (MTurk) make it possible to task people with small jobs, such as labeling images or looking up phone numbers, via a programmatic interface. MTurk tasks for processing datasets with humans are currently designed with significant reimplementation of common workflows and ad-hoc selection of parameters such as price to pay per task. We describ...

Marcus et al. (2011) describe using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) systems utilizing crowds for database sorts and joins. Crowdsourcing activities for these types of queries are typical costly in order to ensure accuracy and reliability. The authors present an interface for optimizing these functions in order to determine cost-effectiveness of various methods (simple join, naïve batching, and...

The objective of this work is to model the pilotvehicle system made up of a person with disability and of an electric wheelchair. This modelling must induce an objective analysis method of the pilot-wheelchair couple in order to help to personalize the parameters of the vehicle on the one hand and to evaluate the interest of new functionalities on the other hand. After a review of the literatur...

People with disabilities have always engaged the people around them in order to circumvent inaccessible situations, allowing them to live more independently and get things done in their everyday lives. Increasing connectivity is allowing this approach to be extended to wherever and whenever it is needed. Technology can leverage this human work force to accomplish tasks beyond the capabilities o...