Evaluating and improving the usability of Mechanical Turk for low-income workers in India

Proceedings of the 1st ACM Symposium on Computing for Development, DEV 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Khanna, Shashank ^a   Ratan, Aishwarya ^b   Davis, James ^c   Thies, William ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ICT4D; India; Mechanical turk; Microtasks

Indexed keywords

DESIGN RECOMMENDATIONS; DEVELOPING REGIONS; ICT4D; INDIA; MECHANICAL TURK; MECHANICAL TURKS; MICROTASKS; NEW DESIGN; POTENTIAL SOURCES;

DESIGN;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 79952341648     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1926180.1926195     Document Type: Conference Paper

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