Browsing Mathematics (Faculty of) 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 ... -
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 ...