Authors

Vaish Rajan, Peter Organisciak, Kotaro Hara, Jeffrey P. Bigham, and Haoqi Zhang

Publication

Poster Proceedings of HCOMP 2014

Abstract

Crowdsourcing systems leverage short bursts of focused attention from many contributors to achieve a goal. By requiring people’s full attention, existing crowdsourcing systems fail to leverage people’s cognitive surplus in the many settings for which they may be distracted, performing or waiting to perform another task, or barely paying attention. In this paper, we study opportunities for low effort crowdsourcing that enable people to contribute to problem solving in such settings. We discuss the design space for low-effort crowdsourcing, and through a series of prototypes, demonstrate interaction techniques, mechanisms, and emerging principles for enabling low-effort crowdsourcing.

Paper

"Low effort crowdsourcing: Leveraging peripheral attention for crowd wo" by Vaish RAJAN, Peter ORGANISCIAK et al.

Crowdsourcing systems leverage short bursts of focusedattention from many contributors to achieve a goal. Byrequiring people's full attention, existing crowdsourcingsystems fail to leverage people's cognitive surplus in themany settings for which they may be distracted, performingor waiting to perform another task, or barely payingattention.

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