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Understanding how to engage users is a critical question in many applications. Previous research has shown that unexpected or astonishing events can attract user attention, leading to positive outcomes such as engagement and learning. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Nalin Chhibber , Rohail Syed , Mengqiu Teng , Joslin Goh , Kevyn Collins-Thompson , Edith Law

Crowdsensing, also known as participatory sensing, is a method of data collection that involves gathering information from a large number of common people (or individuals), often using mobile devices or other personal technologies. This…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Chattu Bhargavi , Vikash Kumar Singh

Crowdsourcing platforms offer a way to label data by aggregating answers of multiple unqualified workers. We introduce a \textit{simple} and \textit{budget efficient} crowdsourcing method named Proxy Crowdsourcing (PCS). PCS collects…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Gal Cohensius , Omer Ben Porat , Reshef Meir , Ofra Amir

Crowdsourcing, in which human intelligence and productivity is dynamically mobilized to tackle tasks too complex for automation alone to handle, has grown to be an important research topic and inspired new businesses (e.g., Uber, Airbnb).…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Shipeng Wang , Qingzhong Li , Lizhen Cui , Zhongmin Yan , Yonghui Xu , Zhuan Shi , Xinping Min , Zhiqi Shen , Han Yu

Learning from the crowd has become increasingly popular in the Web and social media. There is a wide variety of crowdlearning sites in which, on the one hand, users learn from the knowledge that other users contribute to the site, and, on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Utkarsh Upadhyay , Isabel Valera , Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez

We study a crowdsourcing problem where the platform aims to incentivize distributed workers to provide high quality and truthful solutions without the ability to verify the solutions. While most prior work assumes that the platform and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Chao Huang , Haoran Yu , Jianwei Huang , Randall A. Berry

Crowdfunding has emerged as a widespread strategy for startups seeking financing, particularly through reward-based methods. However, understanding its economic impact at both micro and macro levels requires thorough analysis, often…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Giuseppe Pipitò , Emanuele Macca

Crowdsourcing systems, in which numerous tasks are electronically distributed to numerous "information piece-workers", have emerged as an effective paradigm for human-powered solving of large scale problems in domains such as image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-27 David R. Karger , Sewoong Oh , Devavrat Shah

Crowdsourcing can identify high-quality solutions to problems; however, individual decisions are constrained by cognitive biases. We investigate some of these biases in an experimental model of a question-answering system. In both natural…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Keith Burghardt , Tad Hogg , Kristina Lerman

Incentive mechanisms for crowdsourcing have been extensively studied under the framework of all-pay auctions. Along a distinct line, this paper proposes to use Tullock contests as an alternative tool to design incentive mechanisms for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-06 T. Luo , S. S. Kanhere , H-P. Tan , F. Wu , H. Wu

Allowing members of the crowd to propose novel microtasks for one another is an effective way to combine the efficiencies of traditional microtask work with the inventiveness and hypothesis generation potential of human workers. However,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Abigail Hotaling , James P. Bagrow

Many data mining tasks cannot be completely addressed by auto- mated processes, such as sentiment analysis and image classification. Crowdsourcing is an effective way to harness the human cognitive ability to process these machine-hard…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Chengliang Chai , Ju Fan , Guoliang Li , Jiannan Wang , Yudian Zheng

Crowdsourcing offers a practical method for ranking and scoring large amounts of items. To investigate the algorithms and incentives that can be used in crowdsourcing quality evaluations, we built CrowdGrader, a tool that lets students…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-08-27 Luca de Alfaro , Michael Shavlovsky

Over the past decade, crowdsourcing has emerged as a cheap and efficient method of obtaining solutions to simple tasks that are difficult for computers to solve but possible for humans. The popularity and promise of crowdsourcing markets…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-11-27 Aleksandrs Slivkins , Jennifer Wortman Vaughan

Based on the practical process of innovation and entrepreneurship education for college students in the author's university, this study analyzes and deconstructs the key concepts of AI knowledge-based crowdsourcing on the basis of…

General Economics · Economics 2022-12-13 Yufei Xie , Xiang Liu , Qizhong Yuan

Rank aggregation based on pairwise comparisons over a set of items has a wide range of applications. Although considerable research has been devoted to the development of rank aggregation algorithms, one basic question is how to efficiently…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-22 Xi Chen , Kevin Jiao , Qihang Lin

Through the combination of crowdsourcing knowledge graph and teaching system, research methods to generate knowledge graph and its applications. Using two crowdsourcing approaches, crowdsourcing task distribution and reverse captcha…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Jinta Weng , Ying Gao , Jing Qiu , Guozhu Ding , Huanqin Zheng

In a crowdsourcing contest, a principal holding a task posts it to a crowd. People in the crowd then compete with each other to win the rewards. Although in real life, a crowd is usually networked and people influence each other via social…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Qi Shi , Dong Hao

A clinical study is often necessary for exploring important research questions; however, this approach is sometimes time and money consuming. Another extreme approach, which is to collect and aggregate opinions from crowds, provides a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Shoko Wakamiya , Toshiki Mera , Eiji Aramaki , Masaki Matsubara , Atsuyuki Morishima

Today mobile crowdsourcing platforms invite users to provide anonymous reviews about service experiences, yet many reviews are found biased to be extremely positive or negative. The existing methods find it difficult to learn from biased…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Shugang Hao , Lingjie Duan