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In the last few years, a growing number of companies has taken advantage of crowdsourcing techniques in order to solve problems outside the reach of pure automatic computation. In this context, participation and willingness to contribute become two of the critical issues that both organizations and software designers need to take into account for developing effective solutions. Many studies have focused on motivations and incentives, but they mainly analyze specific crowdsourcing initiatives, or groups of contributors.

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PrePrint: A framework to analyze crowd labor and design a proper set of incentives for humans in the loop

We compare two human-computation techniques, games-with-a-purpose and microtask crowdsourcing with respect to their costs and benefits for the resolution of semantic-technologies related tasks, such as knowledge representation, ontology alignment and semantic annotation. We present a theoretical analysis of the trade-offs of the two techniques and an experiment in which entities and classes thereof described in the English Wikipedia are used to build a large general-purpose ontology. In the experiment we replicated the problem-solving setting of the OntoPronto game via Mechnical Turk, using a similar task design structure, evaluation mechanisms, and input data.

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PrePrint: An experiment in comparing human-computation techniques

Smartphones are quickly becoming an all-in-one replacement solution for many of the other technology based devices that we own. In another post, we reviewed how you can use your smartphone to control your television, Blu-ray player, etc… In today’s post, we will review how you can use an iPhone or Android phone as a replacement Post from: Use Your Smartphone as a Photo or Document Scanner

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Use Your Smartphone as a Photo or Document Scanner

Smartphones are quickly becoming an all-in-one replacement solution for many of the other technology based devices that we own.

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Use Your Smartphone as a Photo or Document Scanner