Browsing University of Waterloo by Subject "crowdsourcing"
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Applying Fair Reward Divisions to Collaborative Work
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-18)Collaborative crowdsourcing tasks allow workers to solve more difficult problems than they could alone, but motivating workers in these tasks is complex. In this thesis, we study how to use payments to motivate groups of ... -
Coordination in a Peer Production Platform: A study of Reddit's /r/Place experiment
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-24)Understanding the factors causing groups to engage in coordinating behaviour has been an active research area for decades. In this thesis, we study this problem using a novel dataset of crowd behaviour from an online ... -
Crisis Crowdsourcing in Government: Characterising efforts by North American Agencies to Inform Emergency Management Operations
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-26)Crowdsourcing is proven to be a useful communication platform during and in the direct aftermath of a disastrous event. While previous research in crisis crowdsourcing demonstrates its wide adoption for aiding response ... -
Crowdsourcing the Disaster Management Cycle
(IGI Global, 2016-10-01)Crowdsourcing is a communication platform that can be used during and after a disastrous event. Previous research in crisis crowdsourcing demonstrates its wide adoption for aiding response efforts by non-government ... -
Dynamic Crowdsourcing Consensus Tasks with Workers That Can Learn
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-21)Crowdsourcing has become one of the most popular topics in both academia and industry in the past few years. By hiring workers online, task assigners can take advantage of the wisdom of the crowd and solve problems that ... -
How many crowdsourced workers should a requester hire?
(Springer, 2016-01)Recent years have seen an increased interest in crowdsourcing as a way of obtaining information from a potentially large group of workers at a reduced cost. The crowdsourcing process, as we consider in this paper, is as ... -
Human-AI Interaction in the Presence of Ambiguity: From Deliberation-based Labeling to Ambiguity-aware AI
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-11)Ambiguity, the quality of being open to more than one interpretation, permeates our lives. It comes in different forms including linguistic and visual ambiguity, arises for various reasons and gives rise to disagreements ... -
Open Aerial Map, Drones and Archaeology: The implications of using drones to contribute and share aerial data on an open data repository
(University of Waterloo, 2019-11-04)The purpose of this research is to determine the potential benefits and challenges of volunteered aerial imagery by looking at OpenAerialMap (OAM) and by presenting how a repository like OAM may be applied in archaeological ...