• DOI:10.1109/IMIS.2011.89
Corpus ID: 12955095

Anatomy of a Crowdsourcing Platform - Using the Example of Microworkers.com

@article{Hirth2011AnatomyOA,
  title={Anatomy of a Crowdsourcing Platform - Using the Example of Microworkers.com},
  author={Matthias Hirth and T. Ho{\ss}feld and P. Tran-Gia},
  journal={2011 Fifth International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing},
  year={2011},
  pages={322-329}
}

Matthias Hirth, T. Hoßfeld, P. Tran-Gia

Published 2011

Computer Science

2011 Fifth International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing

Since Jeff Howe introduced the term "crowdsourcing" in 2006 for the first time, crowd sourcing has be come a growing market in the current Internet. Thousands of workers categorize images, write articles or perform other small tasks on platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), Micro workers or Short Task. In this work, we want to give an inside view of the usage data from Micro workers and show that there are significant differences to the well studied MTurk. Further, we have a look at… CONTINUE READING

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