Instrumenting the crowd: Using implicit behavioral measures to predict task performance

UIST'11 - Proceedings of the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 13-22

  Rzeszotarski, Jeffrey M ^a   Kittur, Aniket ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Event logging; Mechanical turk; Performance; User behavior; User logging

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING; EVENT LOGGING; MECHANICAL TURKS; PERFORMANCE; USER BEHAVIORS; USER LOGGING;

QUALITY CONTROL; USER INTERFACES;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 80755168394     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2047196.2047199     Document Type: Conference Paper

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