Objective Crowdsourcing research allows investigators to engage thousands of people to
provide either data or data analysis. However, prior work has not documented the use of …

Background Crowdsourcing is a nascent phenomenon that has grown exponentially since it
was coined in 2006. It involves a large group of people solving a problem or completing a …

Background Crowdsourcing involves obtaining ideas, needed services, or content by
soliciting Web-based contributions from a crowd. The 4 types of crowdsourced tasks …

Infectious disease is a leading threat to public health, economic stability, and other key
social structures. Efforts to mitigate these impacts depend on accurate and timely monitoring …

Background First coined by Howe in 2006, the field of crowdsourcing has grown
exponentially. Despite its growth and its transcendence across many fields, the definition of …

Recent increases in funding for malaria control have led to the reduction in transmission in
many malaria endemic countries, prompting the national control programmes of 36 malaria …

This paper describes a social media system to prevent dengue in Sri Lanka and potentially
in the rest of the South and Southeast Asia regions. The system integrates three concepts of …

Flu Near You: An Online Self-reported Influenza Surveillance System in the USA Page 1
ISDS Annual Conference Proceedings 2012. This is an Open Access article distributed …

Cognitive interviewing is a common method used to evaluate survey questions. This study
compares traditional cognitive interviewing methods with crowdsourcing, or “tapping into the …

Abstract Purpose of Review This review synthesizes evidence on the use of crowdsourcing
to improve HIV/sexual health outcomes. Recent Findings We identified 15 studies, including …