Soylent: A word processor with a crowd inside

UIST 2010 - 23rd ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 313-322

  Bernstein, Michael S ^a   Little, Greg ^a   Miller, Robert C ^a   Hartmann, Bjorn ^b   Ackerman, Mark S ^c   Karger, David R ^a   Crowell, David ^a   Panovich, Katrina ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Mechanical Turk; Outsourcing

Indexed keywords

AUTHORING TOOL; CROWDSOURCING; EVALUATION STUDY; INTERACTION PATTERN; MECHANICAL TURKS; PROGRAMMING PATTERNS; WORD PROCESSOR; WORK TIME;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; OUTSOURCING; WORD PROCESSING;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 78649604206     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1866029.1866078     Document Type: Conference Paper

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