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Accurately and efficiently crowdsourcing complex, open-ended tasks can be difficult, as crowd participants tend to favor short, repetitive "microtasks". We study the crowdsourcing of large networks where the crowd provides the network…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Daniel Berenberg , James P. Bagrow

We consider the problem of accurately estimating the reliability of workers based on noisy labels they provide, which is a fundamental question in crowdsourcing. We propose a novel lower bound on the minimax estimation error which applies…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-26 Thomas Bonald , Richard Combes

Transaction fee mechanism design is a new decentralized mechanism design problem where users bid for space on the blockchain. Several recent works showed that the transaction fee mechanism design fundamentally departs from classical…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Ke Wu , Elaine Shi , Hao Chung

Large-scale labeled dataset is the indispensable fuel that ignites the AI revolution as we see today. Most such datasets are constructed using crowdsourcing services such as Amazon Mechanical Turk which provides noisy labels from…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Chong Liu , Yu-Xiang Wang

How can a system designer exploit system-level knowledge to derive incentives to optimally influence social behavior? The literature on network routing contains many results studying the application of monetary tolls to influence behavior…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Bryce L. Ferguson , Philip N. Brown , Jason R. Marden

The problem of achieving consensus in a network of connected systems arises in many science and engineering applications. In contrast to previous works, we focus on the system reactivity, i.e., the initial amplification of the norm of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Amirhossein Nazerian , David Phillips , Hernan A. Makse , Francesco Sorrentino

Crowdsourcing models applied to work on mobile devices continuously reach new ways of solving sophisticated problems, now with a use of portable advanced devices, where users are not limited to a stationary use. There exists an open problem…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-05-29 Oskar Jarczyk

Crowd feedback systems have the potential to support creative workers with feedback from the crowd. In this position paper for the Workshop on Designing Crowd-powered Creativity Support Systems (DC2S2) at CHI '19, we present three…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Jonas Oppenlaender , Simo Hosio

Crowdsourced on-demand services offer benefits such as reduced costs, faster service fulfillment times, greater adaptability, and contributions to sustainable urban transportation in on-demand delivery contexts. However, the success of an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Georgina Nouli , Axel Parmentier , Maximilian Schiffer

The growing trend of artificial intelligence (AI) as a solution to social and technical problems reinforces AI Realism -- the belief that AI is an inevitable and natural order. In response, this paper argues that participatory design (PD),…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Aakash Gautam

The tech industry's shifting landscape and the growing precarity of its labor force have spurred unionization efforts among tech workers. These workers turn to collective action to improve their working conditions and to protest unethical…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Cella M. Sum , Anna Konvicka , Mona Wang , Sarah E. Fox

Prior work has mapped which workplace tasks are exposed to AI, but less is known about whether workers perceive these tasks as meaningful or as busywork. We examined: (1) which dimensions of meaningful work do workers associate with tasks…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jaspreet Ranjit , Ke Zhou , Swabha Swayamdipta , Daniele Quercia

Due to the unreliability of Internet workers, it's difficult to complete a crowdsourcing project satisfactorily, especially when the tasks are multiple and the budget is limited. Recently, meta learning has brought new vitality to few-shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Guangyang Han , Guoxian Yu , Lizhen Cui , Carlotta Domeniconi , Xiangliang Zhang

Consider designing an effective crowdsourcing system for an $M$-ary classification task. Crowd workers complete simple binary microtasks whose results are aggregated to give the final result. We consider the novel scenario where workers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Qunwei Li , Aditya Vempaty , Lav R. Varshney , Pramod K. Varshney

In the early stages of designing graphical user interfaces (GUIs), the look (appearance) can be easily presented by sketching, but the feel (interactive behaviors) cannot, and often requires an accompanying description of how it works…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-09-07 Sang Won Lee , Yi Wei Yang , Shiyan Yan , Yujin Zhang , Isabelle Wong , Zhengxi Tan , Miles McGruder , Christopher Homan , Walter Lasecki

In recent years, it has been debated whether a reduction in working hours would be a viable solution to tackle the unemployment caused by technological change. The improvement of existing production technology is gradually being seen to…

General Economics · Economics 2019-12-05 Virginia Tsoukatou

Crowdsourcing has been part of the IR toolbox as a cheap and fast mechanism to obtain labels for system development and evaluation. Successful deployment of crowdsourcing at scale involves adjusting many variables, a very important one…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Ittai Abraham , Omar Alonso , Vasilis Kandylas , Rajesh Patel , Steven Shelford , Aleksandrs Slivkins

Crowdsourcing is an online outsourcing mode which can solve the current machine learning algorithm's urge need for massive labeled data. Requester posts tasks on crowdsourcing platforms, which employ online workers over the Internet to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Guangyang Han , Sufang Li , Runmin Wang , Chunming Wu

Crowd work platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk and Prolific are vital for research, yet workers' growing use of generative AI tools poses challenges. Researchers face compromised data validity as AI responses replace authentic human…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Amanda Chan , Catherine Di , Joseph Rupertus , Gary Smith , Varun Nagaraj Rao , Manoel Horta Ribeiro , Andrés Monroy-Hernández

A natural intuition about the economics of AI agents is that, because agents can be replicated at very low marginal cost, agent labor may be supplied highly elastically, placing downward pressure on cognitive-labor wages when it closely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Siqi Zhu