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Here are 5 Mechanical Turk tips for startups: 1. Make sure your job is appropriate for Mechanical Turk. 2. Run a small sample test before submitting a large volume of tasks. 3. Prepare worker...
It's good that Microsoft was able to understand how AMT can help global low-income workers make the most out of AMT. Microsoft devised a simple and easy to navigate user interface that was...
Amazon's Mechanical Turk allows users to sign up for quick, low paying, online-based jobs like writing with photo captions, allowing other large Web companies including Twitter to crowdsouce...
The design contest ended on October 4th, 2010 when a Turkish developer bagged the cash prize of $10,000. This is a crowdsourcing endeavor and there's nothing wrong with this. One could...
At Mechanical Turk, workers can answer a question that needs an answer, called Human Intelligence Task, or HIT. A HIT is a self-contained task that a Worker can work on, submit an answer, and...
Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing Internet marketplace that enables users to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks which computers are unable to do. It is one...
The AMT team posits that extensive research in HIT design, task workflow and review, and compensation strategies is needed in the crowdsourcing field. HIT design patterns can increase work quality...
I recall a highly talked about presentation (although highly unconventional) by M. Six Silberman whereby he discussed the "Sellers' problems in human computation markets". The basic question: can we protect the workers there from exploitation and from sweatshop salaries? Luis von Ahn posted a similar post on his blog. In the comments of the blog post, someone suggested that the low wages on Mechanical Turk is simply the result of high supply of workers and low demand for their work however I argue that what Amazon Mechanical Turk is today is a market for lemons, following the terminology of Akerlof's famous paper, for which he got the 2001 Nobel prize.
Sentiment Analysis is a technique used to monitor, measure and derive information from the comments customers make about companies and their products on blog posts, tweets and other mediums. It is...
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Last week, Newsweek published an article titled The Real Minimum Wage. The results "showed" that Americans are the ones willing to accept the lowest possible salary for working on a task. The conclusion of the article? Americans are more desperate than anyone else in the world. What is the key problem of this study? There are many more US-based workers on Mechanical Turk compared to other nationalities. So, if you have a handful of workers from other countries, and hundreds of workers from the US, you are guaranteed to find more extreme findings for the US. Why? To put it simply, you are searching harder within the US to find small values, compared to the effort placed on other countries.
Micro-task markets such as Amazon’s Mechanical Turk are promising platforms for conducting a variety of user study tasks, ranging from surveys to rapid prototyping to quantitative performance...
The integration with Amazon Mechanical Turk gives Crowd4Self users easy access to a global, on-demand, scalable workforce. A simple interface guides the user through the set-up process.
A new survey profiles the Amazon Mechanical Turk workforce, and finds many are moonlighting... while on the job.
Most compelling about the Labor 3.0 crowd is that workers can tackle big data projects very quickly when supported by artificial intelligence applications like CrowdControl, giving enterprises a...
Future research is needed to develop better tools for crowdsourced experimentation. The facilities for conducting user studies on Mechanical Turk are still rudimentary. Dynamic task generation...
The advent of Mechanical Turk spawned startups like the Silicon Valley-based Crowdflower and Odesk, who offered to manage the outsourcing of work to micro-taskers around the globe. But the idea...
The new categorization app from Amazon removes some of the hurdles of creating HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks) that ask workers to pick the best category for items. The result could make the...
One of the most popular uses for Amazon's Mechanical Turk is categorization projects and the Turk team has now made it easier for users to setup and request categorization tasks with a new app.
Mark Pratt "The Cloud Guy" interviews Vice President of Amazon's Mechanical Turk service, Sharon Chiarella, about where the name comes from, who uses it, and why. They think you...
This paper briefly describes the functioning of the Amazon Mechanical Turk system and presents a simple typology of research data collected using AMT. For each kind of data, it discusses...
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