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The crowdsourcing consists in the externalisation of tasks to a crowd of people remunerated to execute this ones. The crowd, usually diversified, can include users without qualification and/or motivation for the tasks. In this paper we will…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Constance Thierry , Jean-Christophe Dubois , Yolande Le Gall , Arnaud Martin

In this article, we introduce and evaluate the concept of robosourcing for creating educational content. Robosourcing lies in the intersection of crowdsourcing and large language models, where instead of a crowd of humans, requests to large…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Paul Denny , Sami Sarsa , Arto Hellas , Juho Leinonen

Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) are people that have a strong influence and their opinions are listened to by people when making important decisions. Crowdsourcing provides an efficient and cost-effective means to gather data for the KOL finding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Hossein A. Rahmani , Jie Yang

Participatory budgeting is a democratic approach to deciding the funding of public projects, which has been adopted in many cities across the world. We present a survey of research on participatory budgeting emerging from the computational…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Haris Aziz , Nisarg Shah

Crowdsourcing, together with its related approaches, has become very popular in recent years. All crowdsourcing processes involve the participation of a digital crowd, a large number of people that access a single Internet platform or…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-02-19 Marija Slavkovik , Louise A. Dennis , Michael Fisher

Crowdsourcing has evolved as an organizational approach to distributed problem solving and innovation. As contests are embedded in online communities and evaluation rights are assigned to the crowd, community members face a tension: they…

General Economics · Economics 2024-04-23 Christoph Riedl , Tom Grad , Christopher Lettl

Social Media provides researchers with an unprecedented opportunity to gain insight into various facets of human life. Health practitioners put a great emphasis on pinpointing socioeconomic status (SES) of individuals as they can use to it…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Adil E. Rajput , Akila Sarirete , Tamer F. Desouky

Crowd counting is an effective tool for situational awareness in public places. Automated crowd counting using images and videos is an interesting yet challenging problem that has gained significant attention in computer vision. Over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Muhammad Asif Khan , Hamid Menouar , Ridha Hamila

A common workflow to perform a continuous human task stream is to divide workers into groups, have one group perform the newly-arrived task, and rotate the groups. We call this type of workflow the group rotation. This paper addresses the…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Katsumi Kumai , Yuhki Shiraishi , Jianwei Zhang , Hiroyuki Kitagawa , Atsuyuki Morishima

Crowdsourcing platforms are a powerful and convenient means for recruiting participants in online studies and collecting data from the crowd. As information work is being more and more automated by Machine Learning algorithms, creativity…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Jonas Oppenlaender , Aku Visuri , Kristy Milland , Panos Ipeirotis , Simo Hosio

Popular Internet services in recent years have shown that remarkable things can be achieved by harnessing the power of the masses using crowd-sourcing systems. However, crowd-sourcing systems can also pose a real challenge to existing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-05-22 Gang Wang , Christo Wilson , Xiaohan Zhao , Yibo Zhu , Manish Mohanlal , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

There has been significant interest in crowdsourcing and human computation. One subclass of human computation applications are those directed at tasks that involve planning (e.g. travel planning) and scheduling (e.g. conference scheduling).…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-07-31 Kartik Talamadupula , Subbarao Kambhampati

In this work, we initiate the investigation of optimization opportunities in collaborative crowdsourcing. Many popular applications, such as collaborative document editing, sentence translation, or citizen science resort to this special…

With the ubiquity of Internet technologies and growing demands for transparency and open data policies, the role of social networking and online deliberation tools for public engagement in decision-making has increased substantially in the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Iva Bojic , Giulia Marra , Vera Naydenova

Rapid advances in image processing capabilities have been seen across many domains, fostered by the application of machine learning algorithms to "big-data". However, within the realm of medical image analysis, advances have been curtailed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Silas Ørting , Andrew Doyle , Arno van Hilten , Matthias Hirth , Oana Inel , Christopher R. Madan , Panagiotis Mavridis , Helen Spiers , Veronika Cheplygina

The spread of online misinformation poses serious threats to democratic societies. Traditionally, expert fact-checkers verify the truthfulness of information through investigative processes. However, the volume and immediacy of online…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Michael Soprano

A prediction market is a useful means of aggregating information about a future event. To function, the market needs a trusted entity who will verify the true outcome in the end. Motivated by the recent introduction of decentralized…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Rupert Freeman , Sebastien Lahaie , David M. Pennock

This work-in-progress paper describes a vision, i.e., that of fast and reliable software user experience studies conducted with the help from the crowd. Commonly, user studies are controlled in-lab activities that require the instruction,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Florian Daniel , Pavel Kucherbaev

Policies significantly shape computation's societal impact, a crucial HCI concern. However, challenges persist when HCI professionals attempt to integrate policy into their work or affect policy outcomes. Prior research considered these…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Qian Yang , Richmond Y Wong , Steven J Jackson , Sabine Junginger , Margaret D Hagan , Thomas Gilbert , John Zimmerman

Scholars have increasingly investigated "crowdsourcing" as an alternative to expert-based judgment or purely data-driven approaches to predicting the future. Under certain conditions, scholars have found that crowdsourcing can outperform…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-12-12 Daniel Martin Katz , Michael James Bommarito , Josh Blackman