Low effort crowdsourcing: Leveraging peripheral attention for crowd work

• Main Authors: RAJAN, Vaish, ORGANISCIAK, Peter, HARA, Kotaro, BIGHAM, Jeffrey P., ZHANG, Haoqi
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4011; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5013/viewcontent/9052_39451_1_PB.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Crowdsourcing systems leverage short bursts of focusedattention from many contributors to achieve a goal. Byrequiring people’s full attention, existing crowdsourcingsystems fail to leverage people’s cognitive surplus in themany settings for which they may be distracted, performingor waiting to perform another task, or barely payingattention. In this paper, we study opportunities for loweffortcrowdsourcing that enable people to contribute toproblem solving in such settings. We discuss the designspace for low-effort crowdsourcing, and through a seriesof prototypes, demonstrate interaction techniques, mechanisms,and emerging principles for enabling low-effortcrowdsourcing.