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Objective: This research explores using crowdsourcing for software usability evaluation. Background: Usability studies are essential for designing user-friendly software, but traditional methods are often costly and time-consuming.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Muhammad Nasir

With the rapid development of Mobile Internet, spatial crowdsourcing is gaining more and more attention from both academia and industry. In spatial crowdsourcing, spatial tasks are sent to workers based on their locations. A wide kind of…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Tianshu Song , Feng Zhu , Ke Xu

Crowdsourcing employs human workers to solve computer-hard problems, such as data cleaning, entity resolution, and sentiment analysis. When crowdsourcing tabular data, e.g., the attribute values of an entity set, a worker's answers on the…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Caihua Shan , Nikos Mamoulis , Guoliang Li , Reynold Cheng , Zhipeng Huang , Yudian Zheng

Task selection (picking an appropriate labeling task) and worker selection (assigning the labeling task to a suitable worker) are two major challenges in task assignment for crowdsourcing. Recently, worker selection has been successfully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-07-28 Hao Zhang , Masashi Sugiyama

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

As the use of crowdsourcing increases, it is important to think about performance optimization. For this purpose, it is possible to think about each worker as a HPU(Human Processing Unit), and to draw inspiration from performance…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Chen Cao , Zheng Liu , Lei Chen , H. V. Jagadish

This paper reports on the challenges and lessons we learned while running controlled experiments in crowdsourcing platforms. Crowdsourcing is becoming an attractive technique to engage a diverse and large pool of subjects in experimental…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Jorge Ramírez , Marcos Baez , Fabio Casati , Luca Cernuzzi , Boualem Benatallah

Ranking a set of samples based on subjectivity, such as the experience quality of streaming video or the happiness of images, has been a typical crowdsourcing task. Numerous studies have employed paired comparison analysis to solve…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Ming-Hung Wang , Chia-Yuan Zhang , Jia-Ru Song

With the rapid advancement of mobile networks and the widespread use of mobile devices, spatial crowdsourcing, which involves assigning location-based tasks to mobile workers, has gained significant attention. However, most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Jinwen Chen , Jiannan Guo , Dazhuo Qiu , Yawen Li , Guanhua Ye , Yan Zhao , Kai Zheng

With the rapid development of crowdsourcing platforms that aggregate the intelligence of Internet workers, crowdsourcing has been widely utilized to address problems that require human cognitive abilities. Considering great dynamics of…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Jiayang Tu , Peng Cheng , Lei Chen

The proliferation of advanced mobile terminals opened up a new crowdsourcing avenue, spatial crowdsourcing, to utilize the crowd potential to perform real-world tasks. In this work, we study a new type of spatial crowdsourcing, called…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Ting Wang , Xike Xie , Xin Cao , Torben Bach Pedersen , Yang Wang , Mingjun Xiao

A critical issue in software development projects in IT service companies is finding the right people at the right time. By enabling assignments of tasks to people to be more fluid, the use of crowdsourcing approaches within a company…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Shinobu Saito , Yukako Iimura , Emad Aghayi , Thomas D. LaToza

With the industry trend of shifting from a traditional hierarchical approach to flatter management structure, crowdsourced performance assessment gained mainstream popularity. One fundamental challenge of crowdsourced performance assessment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Yifei Huang , Matt Shum , Xi Wu , Jason Zezhong Xiao

In this paper, we present a novel sequential paradigm for classification in crowdsourcing systems. Considering that workers are unreliable and they perform the tests with errors, we study the construction of decision trees so as to minimize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Baocheng Geng , Qunwei Li , Pramod K. Varshney

Crowdsourcing-based content moderation is a platform that hosts content moderation tasks for crowd workers to review user submissions (e.g. text, images and videos) and make decisions regarding the admissibility of the posted content, along…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Sainath Sanga , Venkata Sriram Siddhardh Nadendla

With the rapid development of mobile devices and crowdsourcing platforms, the spatial crowdsourcing has attracted much attention from the database community. Specifically, the spatial crowdsourcing refers to sending location-based requests…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Peng Cheng , Xiang Lian , Lei Chen , Jinsong Han , Jizhong Zhao

Existed studies have shown that crowd workers are more interested in taking similar tasks in terms of context, field, and required technology, rather than tasks from the same project. Therefore, it is important for task owners to not only…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Razieh Saremi , Mostaan Lotfalian Saremi , Prasad Desai , Robert Anzalone

It is reported that task monetary prize is one of the most important motivating factors to attract crowd workers. While using expert-based methods to price Crowdsourcing tasks is a common practice, the challenge of validating the associated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Mostaan Lotfalian Saremi , Razieh Saremi , Denisse Martinez-Mejorado

We describe methods to predict a crowd worker's accuracy on new tasks based on his accuracy on past tasks. Such prediction provides a foundation for identifying the best workers to route work to in order to maximize accuracy on the new…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Hyun Joon Jung , Matthew Lease

Spatial crowdsourcing (SC) engages large worker pools for location-based tasks, attracting growing research interest. However, prior SC task allocation approaches exhibit limitations in computational efficiency, balanced matching, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Kun Li , Shengling Wang , Hongwei Shi , Xiuzhen Cheng , Minghui Xu