Software Aims to Ensure Fairness in Crowdsourcing Projects.

The article discusses crowdsourcing as of August 2013, focusing on the comments of the researcher Lilly Irani concerning the potentially adverse treatment of workers by crowdsouring employers as well as the Turkopticon software tool that aims to disseminate worker feedback to potential crowdsourcing...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 56; no. 8; pp. 19 - 22
Autor principal: Hyman, Paul
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Aug2013
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Sumario:The article discusses crowdsourcing as of August 2013, focusing on the comments of the researcher Lilly Irani concerning the potentially adverse treatment of workers by crowdsouring employers as well as the Turkopticon software tool that aims to disseminate worker feedback to potential crowdsourcing employees. Topics include Human Intelligence Tasks, the Internet crowdsourcing marketplace Amazon Mechanical Turk, the potential abuses of employers and employees in crowdsourcing agreements, and the online labor platform MobileWorks.