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Extensive work has argued in favour of paying crowd workers a wage that is at least equivalent to the U.S. federal minimum wage. Meanwhile, research on collecting high quality annotations suggests using a qualification that requires workers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Jonathan K. Kummerfeld

Traditional employment usually provides mechanisms for workers to improve their skills to access better opportunities. However, crowd work platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) generally do not support skill development (i.e.,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Chun-Wei Chiang , Anna Kasunic , Saiph Savage

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

We investigate the feasibility of obtaining highly trustworthy results using crowdsourcing on complex engineering tasks. Crowdsourcing is increasingly seen as a potentially powerful way of increasing the supply of labor for solving…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-01 Matthew Staffelbach , Peter Sempolinski , David Hachen , Ahsan Kareem , Tracy Kijewski-Correa , Douglas Thain , Daniel Wei , Greg Madey

Entry-level crowd work is often reported to pay less than minimum wage. While this may be appropriate or even necessary, due to various legal, economic, and pragmatic factors, some Requesters and workers continue to question this status…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Akash Mankar , Riddhi J. Shah , Matthew Lease

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

We conduct an experimental analysis of a dataset comprising over 27 million microtasks performed by over 70,000 workers issued to a large crowdsourcing marketplace between 2012-2016. Using this data---never before analyzed in an academic…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Ayush Jain , Akash Das Sarma , Aditya Parameswaran , Jennifer Widom

General-purpose crowdsourcing platforms are increasingly being harnessed for creative work. The platforms' potential for creative work is clearly identified, but the workers' perspectives on such work have not been extensively documented.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Jonas Oppenlaender , Kristy Milland , Aku Visuri , Panos Ipeirotis , Simo Hosio

Models of crowdsourcing and human computation often assume that individuals independently carry out small, modular tasks. However, while these models have successfully shown how crowds can accomplish significant objectives, they can…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-09-04 David T. Lee , Christos A. Makridis

As freelancing work keeps on growing almost everywhere due to a sharp decrease in communication costs and to the widespread of Internet-based labour marketplaces (e.g., guru.com, feelancer.com, mturk.com, upwork.com), many researchers and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Giorgio Barnabò , Adriano Fazzone , Stefano Leonardi , Chris Schwiegelshohn

Digital platforms capitalize on users' labor, often disguising essential contributions as casual activities or consumption, regardless of users' recognition of their efforts. Data annotation, content creation, and engagement with…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Antonio A. Casilli

Since its emergence roughly a decade ago, microtask crowdsourcing has been attracting a heterogeneous set of workers from all over the globe. This paper sets out to explore the characteristics of the international crowd workforce and offers…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Lisa Posch , Arnim Bleier , Fabian Flöck , Clemens M. Lechner , Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda , Denis Helic , Markus Strohmaier

Crowdsourcing systems often have crowd workers that perform unreliable work on the task they are assigned. In this paper, we propose the use of error-control codes and decoding algorithms to design crowdsourcing systems for reliable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Aditya Vempaty , Lav R. Varshney , Pramod K. Varshney

The success of software crowdsourcing depends on active and trustworthy pool of worker supply. The uncertainty of crowd workers' behaviors makes it challenging to predict workers' success and plan accordingly. In a competitive crowdsourcing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Hamid Shamszare , Razieh Saremi , Sanam Jena

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

Digital labor platforms are increasingly used to procure human input, ranging from annotating data and red-teaming AI models, to ride-sharing and food delivery. A central concern in such markets is the ability of platforms to suppress wages…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Ana-Andreea Stoica , Celestine Mendler-Duenner , Moritz Hardt

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

In 2013, scholars laid out a framework for a sustainable, ethical future of crowd work, recommending career ladders so that crowd work can lead to career advancement and more economic mobility. Five years later, we consider this vision in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Anna Kasunic , Chun-Wei Chiang , Geoff Kaufman , Saiph Savage

This article-based doctoral thesis explores the stakeholder perspectives and experiences of crowdsourced creative work on two of the leading crowdsourcing platforms. The thesis has two parts. In the first part, we explore creative work from…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Jonas Oppenlaender

Crowdsourcing has become an important tool to collect data for various artificial intelligence applications and auction can be an effective way to allocate work and determine reward in a crowdsourcing platform. In this paper, we focus on…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Timothy Shin Heng Mak , Albert Y. S. Lam