Web workers unite! Addressing challenges of online laborers

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 97-105

  Bederson, Benjamin B ^a   Quinn, Alexander J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective intelligence; Crowdsourcing; HCOMP; Human computation; Wisdom of crowds

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCES; COMPUTATIONAL PROBLEM; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; HCOMP; HUMAN COMPUTATION; LABOR ISSUES; WISDOM OF CROWDS; WORKERS';

CROWDSOURCING;

EID: 79957930319     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1979742.1979606     Document Type: Conference Paper

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