Workflow transparency in a microtask marketplace

GROUP'12 - Proceedings of the ACM 2012 International Conference on Support Group Work

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 281-284

  Kinnaird, Peter ^a   Dabbish, Laura ^a   Kiesler, Sara ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; CSCW; Entitativity; Productivity; Task motivation; Visualization; Workflow

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING; CSCW; ENTITATIVITY; MECHANICAL TURKS; SOCIAL LOAFING; WORKFLOW;

EXPERIMENTS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; MOTIVATION; PRODUCTIVITY; VISUALIZATION;

TRANSPARENCY;

EID: 84870284051     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2389176.2389219     Document Type: Conference Paper

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