Leveraging online populations for crowdsourcing [guest editors' introduction]

IEEE Internet Computing

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 10-12

  Chi, Ed H ^a   Bernstein, Michael S ^b  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon Mechanical Turk; crowdsourcing; human computation; microtask

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING; DISTRIBUTED GROUPS; HUMAN COMPUTATION; HUMAN USERS; MECHANICAL TURKS; MICROTASK; MICROTASKS; ONLINE MARKETS; ONLINE POPULATION; THIRD-PARTY CONTENT; USER EXPERIENCE; USER STUDY;

INTERNET;

EID: 84867447118     PISSN: 10897801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIC.2012.111     Document Type: Article

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