Co-worker transparency in a microtask marketplace

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1285-1290

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

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Co workers; Crowdsourcing; CSCW; Entitativity; Group size; Productivity; Work motivation; Workflow

Indexed keywords

CO-WORKERS; CROWDSOURCING; CSCW; ENTITATIVITY; GROUP SIZE; WORKFLOW;

EXPERIMENTS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PRODUCTIVITY;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 84874920826     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2441776.2441921     Document Type: Conference Paper

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