Accessible crowdwork? Understanding the value in and challenge of microtask employment for people with disabilities

CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1682-1693

  Zyskowski, Kathryn ^a,b   Morris, Meredith Ringel ^a   Bigham, Jeffrey P ^c   Gray, Mary L ^a   Kane, Shaun K ^d  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Human Computer Interaction Institute ^*  (United States)

^d University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

accessibility; Crowdsourcing; employment; Mechanical Turk

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; CROWDSOURCING; EMPLOYMENT; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; TRANSPORTATION;

ACCESSIBILITY; CROWD LABORS; FORMAL STUDIES; MECHANICAL TURKS; OFFICE ENVIRONMENTS; PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES; PUBLIC TRANSIT; WORKFLOW DESIGNS;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 84963625530     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2675133.2675158     Document Type: Conference Paper

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