The crowd is a collaborative network

ML Gray, S Suri, SS Ali, D Kulkarni - … of the 19th ACM conference on …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
The main goal of this paper is to show that crowdworkers collaborate to fulfill technical and
social needs left by the platform they work on. That is, crowdworkers are not the …

The communication network within the crowd

M Yin, ML Gray, S Suri, JW Vaughan - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Since its inception, crowdsourcing has been considered a black-box approach to solicit
labor from a crowd of workers. Furthermore, the" crowd" has been viewed as a group of …

Using Amazon Mechanical Turk and other compensated crowdsourcing sites

GB Schmidt, WM Jettinghoff - Business Horizons, 2016 - Elsevier
Crowdsourcing is becoming recognized as a powerful tool that organizations can use in
order to get work done, this by freelancers and non-employees. We conceptualize …

Moving the crowd at iStockphoto: The composition of the crowd and motivations for participation in a crowdsourcing application

DC Brabham - First monday, 2008 - firstmonday.org
Crowdsourcing is an online, distributed problem solving and production model already in
use by for–profit organizations such as Threadless, iStockphoto, and InnoCentive …

Crowd work

D Durward, I Blohm, JM Leimeister - Business & information systems …, 2016 - Springer
Crowd Work is a phenomenon of the digital economy as well as of the modern IT era. It
provides a great potential for changing the way in which businesses create value. For …

Moving the crowd at Threadless: Motivations for participation in a crowdsourcing application

DC Brabham - Information, Communication & Society, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Crowdsourcing is an online, distributed problem-solving and production model already in
use by businesses such as Threadless. com, iStockphoto. com, and InnoCentive. com. This …

Motivating participation and improving quality of contribution in ubiquitous crowdsourcing

J Goncalves, S Hosio, J Rogstadius, E Karapanos… - Computer …, 2015 - Elsevier
Ubiquitous crowdsourcing, or the crowdsourcing of tasks in settings beyond the desktop, is
attracting interest due to the increasing maturity of mobile and ubiquitous technology, such …

And now for something completely different: Improving crowdsourcing workflows with micro-diversions

P Dai, JM Rzeszotarski, P Paritosh, EH Chi - Proceedings of the 18th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Crowdsourcing has become a popular and indispensable component of many problem-
solving pipelines in the research literature, with crowd workers often treated as …

" Why would anybody do this?" Understanding Older Adults' Motivations and Challenges in Crowd Work

R Brewer, MR Morris, AM Piper - … of the 2016 CHI conference on human …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Diversifying participation in crowd work can benefit the worker and requester. Increasing
numbers of older adults are online, but little is known about their awareness of or how they …

Why individuals participate in micro-task crowdsourcing work environment: Revealing crowdworkers' perceptions

XN Deng, KD Joshi - Journal of the Association for Information …, 2016 - aisel.aisnet.org
Advancements in Internet and digital technologies have enabled a new work form of open
sourcing, which we refer to as the crowdsourcing work environment (CSWE). This new form …