To maximize the strengths of both humans and computers, human computation, a computer science technique that is involved in the design or analysis of information processing systems in which humans participate as computational elements [1], has been widely studied.
Because the computing units in human computation systems are human beings, both the design and management of applications tap into concepts and theories from multiple disciplines.
"Human computation is a third area of computer assisted creativity.
Matias says he is currently collaborating on a "stealth art project" that involves another area of computer-assisted creativity known as "human computation".
Marissa Mayer, Google vice president, USA Today, May 11 These [online] games, like Phetch, employ a technique called "human computation" — harnessing the human brain to collectively perform tasks that digital computers have yet to master... It's the same trick the fictional Tom Sawyer famously used to get his friends to whitewash a fence for him, only multiplied millions of times.
With PlateMate, the foods that were determined using human computation have their nutritional content and serving size estimates calculated through purely computational resources.
Branded by its creators as "the next chapter in human computation", the goal is to translate vast amounts of web content into a variety of languages while at the same time providing free language lessons for millions of users.
These elements would be combined to create a cyborg detective.This sounds terribly futuristic, and rather different to the pen-and-paper human computation of the 19th century.
Michael Bernstein from MIT showed how crowds of unseen human helpers could be assembled and accessed, and then put to work so efficiently that the human computation could answer a relatively difficult question in mere seconds.
Mr von Ahn estimates that more than 1 billion people have helped digitise the printed word by using reCAPTCHA.Found in translationThe notion of "human computation" has spawned its own academic field.
Some studies have analyzed human computation ecosystem.
