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Work could heal the mind: microtasking from a cognitive perspective
May 17, 2010Share
Recent studies of cognitive disorders have found that basic cognitive exercises can help to restore the level of cognitive processing. In this article guest writer Katri Saarikivi discusses how task based work, and in particular microtasks, offer exciting opportunities for not only the treatment of cognitive dysfunction, but also reducing lost productivity in the workplace.
Cognitive difficulties in different …
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cognitive exercising, mental health, microtasks, task-based work, therapy, work | 2 CommentsConfidence tricks: can crowdsourcing keep our feet on the ground?
January 18, 2012… where their understanding is good. This is known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect, and is one of many cognitive biases that affect us all.
Only the lonely
In a world where we’re told to think big and believe in ourselves, can we avoid becoming victims of our own accidental arrogance? The Dunning-Kruger Effect has one important limit: it only applies to individuals (except me, of course). This is where the crowd may offer a way to keep our feet on the ground.
Here at Microtask we’ve …
Gaming the system: how rewards affect performance
April 28, 2011… LSE. All the data points to the same conclusion, that “once a task calls for even rudimentary cognitive skill, a larger reward leads to poorer performance.” This, of course, has serious repercussions for gamified incentive schemes.
A badge too far
Gamification usually works by layering game-like rewards over existing sites and concepts. You take something people are already intrinsically interested in and use gaming to give the service an “engagement boost”. So Nike+ …
Can you crowdsource Christmas?
December 23, 2010… bit of linking) gives me the chance to recommend some of this year’s top crowdsourcing books.
Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirkey is a great book on the creative potential of human-computer interaction. In these heady days of Wikileaks, it’s easy to forget the wiki that started it all: Good Faith Collaboration is a brilliant reminder of the power and extraordinary achievements of Wikipedia – the original and best.
Food
Although there have been several food companies …
Why making the crowd smart is a no-brainer
May 6, 2010… has had a lot of press recently, after a large study indicated that any improvements in cognitive functioning apply only to the specific exercises practiced. Aside from this longstanding debate over whether or not they actually work, what I found interesting about Brain Training is that, in practice, the exercises people perform to give their gray matter a work-out are very close to the kind of micro tasks crowdsourcing platforms could use to help other industries redistribute …
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