We are dynamo: Overcoming stalling and friction in collective action for crowd workers

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2015-April, Issue , 2015, Pages 1621-1630

  Salehi, Niloufar ^a   Irani, Lilly C ^b   Bernstein, Michael S ^a   Alkhatib, Ali ^a   Ogbe, Eva ^a   Milland, Kristy ^c,d   Clickhappier, ^d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d We Are Dynamo ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Activism; Amazon mechanical turk; Collective action; Design; Human computation; Infrastructure

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; FRICTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INTERACTIVE DEVICES;

ACTIVISM; AMAZON MECHANICAL TURKS; COLLECTIVE ACTION; HUMAN COMPUTATION; INFRASTRUCTURE;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84951013363     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2702123.2702508     Document Type: Conference Paper

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