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The real test came last January, when Sonia Chernova and colleagues mocked up a real-life version of the Martian lab at the Museum of Science in Boston. Visitors were paired with a robot powered...
Skeptic paper doesn’t necessarily “reject the consensus position” that humans are causing global warming. It may address a more narrow issue like ocean acidification or the carbon cycle.
By leveraging large corpora of various crowdsourced data, the researchers believe that Human Robot Interaction will become more data driven, will become more rigorous in its approach to scaffolding...
Intelligent technology can be made more useful in the everyday lives of people if it is backed by human services. Creating effective interactive systems that use both human and artificial...
This paper is the first example of generating behavior and dialogue for characters based on data crowd sourced from thousands of players.
The researchers hypothesized that incorporating additional quality control techniques on top of the effective treatment conditions reported in this study could amplify quality improvements...
Here's 5 Real World Examples of Collective Intelligence; Google , Google + , Open Source Projects , BRAIN (Behaviorally Robust Aggregation of Information in Networks) , KuiSchi (Knowledge...
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is contributing its database of images showing the male, female and juveniles of more than 500 North American species. Citizen scientists working with the...
Phylo - A Human Computing Framework for Comparative Genomics, is an interactive game project that allows people to contribute to science, particularly on helping biologists in tracing the source of...
DMLcentral.net is the online presence for the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub located at the systemwide University of California Humanities Research Institute and hosted at the UC Irvine...
We have been running a lot of jobs through CrowdFlower, but only recently did I step back and add up the tweets processed. For more than 200,000 individual tweets, we have received more than 1,000,000 trusted, human judgments from the CrowdFlower workforce! I know our research team, who had to do a bunch of judgments early on as we worked out a viable strategy, are grateful that we could get help from the crowd.
Once we understand how this engine works,we can put on more knobs and dials.And some of those knobs might include diversifying the crowd, recruiting more experts or specialists to add their own...
This paper describes a new approach to machine science which demonstrates for the first time that non-domain experts can collectively formulate features, and provide values for those features...
Some projects have a clear objective and mission, while others are a bit more obscure like The Sheep Market. This online platform from Amazon Mechanical Turk is an online crowdsourcing system that...
Many scientific advancements in prior centuries can be attributed to a single individual or, at most, two to three people that have either independently or jointly innovated. However, advances in technology, global communications and social interactions have meant that the 21st century will be recognized as the century where mass collaboration changes the paradigm.
Citizen Science has become more of a differentiator as scientists are now turning to crowdsourcing to engage large communities of home scientists to help process vast amounts of data and to draw accurate conclusions from scientific research.
Developed and managed by the Genome Bioinformatics Group, a cross-departmental team within the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE) at the University of California Santa Cruz, the...
Socially-adaptable interfaces have the potential to connect users with other members of the user community in a much tighter way than is typical for desktop applications. The wiki serves as a...
A new post from our friends at Dialogue Earth about their ongoing efforts to determine trends in sentiment using crowdsourcing:
After evaluating machine-based sentiment products and talking to experts in the field, we determined that effective machine-based coding—for the short, often cryptic, Twitter tweets we sought to understand—remained a challenge. We’ve been using an approach that relies mainly on crowd-sourced workers to code the sentiment of tweets on various topics, from specific chatter about Google and Apple during SXSW Interactive, to the broad public mood about weather and gas prices.
Forrst is a community for developers and designers. Forrst is all about sharing work and inspiration, getting valuable and constructive feedback, and ultimately getting better at your craft....
Tom Erickson, designer and researcher in the Social Computing Group at IBM's Watson Labs in New York, believes in crowdsourcing as a force capable to bring to citizens the ability to change the landscape of their cities and effectively create a more intelligent and livable environment. In his paper Geocentric Crowdsourcing and Smarter Cities: Enabling Urban Intelligence in Cities and Regions, Mr. Erickson explores the application of crowdsourcing to cities and regions – what he called “geocentric crowdsourcing.”
In his opinion, rather than people as passive subjects of increasingly ‘smart’ systems developed by tech companies, the vision is that smarter cities can offer a variety of ways for humans to act as first class participants, contributing their abilities to sense, analyze and act. Mr. Erickson focuses his research on designing systems that enable groups of people to interact coherently and productively: originally focused on online systems, the scope of his work has expanded to include real world environments ranging from rooms to cities.
Responding to some questions from Crowdsourcing.org, Mr. Erickson explained the concept of Geocentric Crowdsourcing and his practical application to the cities.
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