CrowdForge: Crowdsourcing Complex Work
Venue
Proceedings of UIST 2011, Santa Barbara, CA
Publication Year
2011
Authors
Aniket Kittur, Boris Smus, Susheel Khamkar, Robert Kraut
BibTeX
Abstract
Micro-task markets such as Amazon’s Mechanical Turk represent a new paradigm for
accomplishing work, in which employers can tap into a large population of workers
around the globe to accomplish tasks in a fraction of the time and money of more
traditional methods. However, such markets have been primarily used for simple,
independent tasks, such as labeling an image or judging the relevance of a search
result. Here we present a general purpose framework for accomplishing complex and
interdependent tasks using micro-task markets. We describe our framework, a
web-based prototype, and case studies on article writing, decision making, and
science journalism that demonstrate the benefits and limitations of the approach.
