Urbanization's rapid progress has modernized many people's lives but also engendered big issues, such as traffic congestion, energy consumption, and pollution. Urban computing …
Mobile crowdsourcing markets (eg, Gigwalk and TaskRabbit) offer crowdworkers tasks situated in the physical world (eg, checking street signs, running household errands). The …
Despite the geographically situated nature of most sharing economy tasks, little attention has been paid to the role that geography plays in the sharing economy. In this article, we …
We are in the midst of a new era of experimentation that blends social and mobile computing in support of digital democracy. These experiments will have potentially long lasting …
J Birnholtz, NAR Merola, A Paul - Proceedings of the 33rd annual ACM …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
People have long sought answers to questions online, typically using either anonymous or pseudonymous forums or social network platforms that primarily use real names. Systems …
Crowd-sourcing has become a popular form of computer mediated collaborative work and OpenStreetMap represents one of the most successful crowd-sourcing systems, where the …
Research on participation in third sector organizations and on volunteering in particular has a long tradition in the social sciences. In this paper we give an overview of insights on what …
Online communities produce rich behavioral datasets, eg, Usenet news conversations, Wikipedia edits, and Facebook friend networks. Analysis of such datasets yields important …
D Hardy, J Frew, MF Goodchild - International Journal of …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit and a popular example of user- generated content that includes volunteered geographic information (VGI). In this article, we …