Guess who? Enriching the social graph through a crowdsourcing game

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1373-1382

  Guy, Ido ^a   Perer, Adam ^b   Daniel, Tal ^a   Greenshpan, Ohad ^c   Turbahn, Itai ^d  

^a IBM HAIFA RESEARCH LAB   (Israel)

^b IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Games; Human computation; Social networks

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

GAME; GLOBAL ORGANIZATION; HUMAN COMPUTATION; LARGE VOLUMES; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; SOCIAL GRAPHS; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMATIONS; SOCIAL NETWORK SITES;

CROWDSOURCING;

EID: 79958110182     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979145     Document Type: Conference Paper

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