Crowston, Kevin, et al. “Coordinating Advanced Crowd Work: Extending Citizen Science”. Hawai’i International Conference on System Sciences, 51st ed., 2018, doi:10.24251/HICSS.2018.212.
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Abstract

Crowdsourcing work with high levels of coupling between tasks poses challenges for coordination. This paper presents a study of an online citizen science project that involved volunteers in such tasks: not just analyzing bulk data but also interpreting data and writing a paper for publication. However, extending the reach of citizen science adds tasks with more dependencies, which calls for more elaborate coordination mechanisms but the relationship between the project and volunteers limits how work can be coordinated.

Year of Conference
2018
Conference Name
Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences
Edition
51st
URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10125/50099
DOI
10.24251/HICSS.2018.212