Mobile crowdsourcing, i.e. crowdsourcing to mobile users, presents significant new opportunities and challenges, with enormous possibilities for human computations and tasks with spatial and temporal properties [5 12].
Crowdsourcing, or crowd computing, is an important powerful approach to problem-solving and critical information gathering, harnessing the power of the crowd, and creatively combining machine and human computations [1 3].
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.
(II) Human-computer interfaces, intelligent interfaces, end-user programming, usability, software engineering, human computation, crowd computing.
They are creating a new generation of analytics tools to answer deep questions over dirty and heterogeneous data by extending and fusing machine learning, warehouse-scale computing and human computation.
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.
Matias says he is currently collaborating on a "stealth art project" that involves another area of computer-assisted creativity known as "human computation".
Human computation is multidisciplinary field that requires expertise in computer science, complexity science, cognitive sciences, behavioral economics, human-computer interaction, and so on.
I'll discuss examples of how results in cognitive and social psychology are informing the design of human computation algorithms, and how we can nonetheless bring computer science sensibilities to the design of such systems.
Human computation takes advantage of human participation directed by a computational process in order to solve problems that computers alone cannot yet solve.
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.
