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How many microtasks does it take to change the world?
November 1, 2010… U.S. Civil Rights movement as his main example. The activists who stuck around and took risks had personal connections – friends and family also dedicated to the cause. A sort of morally virtuous form of peer pressure.
In contrast Facebook and Twitter are vast, unstructured networks. They generate weak ties. Great if you want to keep an eye on your college friends’ favorite flavors of ice-cream, not so great if you need to overthrow a brutal regime.
It’s a compelling case. Even if, …
Some work is born digital: from gold farmers to game masters
June 1, 2010… technology on work, and yet little of it has turned out to be overstated. The introduction of personal computers and local area networks to offices around the developed world in the late 1970s started a revolution in processes, which later translated to clear and measurable advances in productivity. The rapid adoption of the Internet since the 1990s has similarly had a profound influence on the way work is organized and conducted. This influence continues today: the latest step is a …
captcha, crowdsourcing, digital labor, human computation, Mechanical Turk, richard heeks, world of warcraft | 3 CommentsWork could heal the mind: microtasking from a cognitive perspective
May 17, 2010… for people to act purposefully and smoothly in their environment, pursue goals and balance between personal needs and the needs of others. They can be viewed as the precursors to intelligent action, the basic functions needed to operate in the world and employ one’s intelligence and knowledge.
The neural mechanisms behind cognitive functions are still being discovered. A lot is however known about how difficulties in cognitive functioning affect day-to-day life and human thought processes. …
Why making the crowd smart is a no-brainer
May 6, 2010… 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 their workloads. Among others, Brain Training exercises include calculations, quick reading, counting syllables and keeping track of elements on screen: all operations easily transferable to other fields.
As I discussed in another recent post, masking work snippets as mini-games could lead to radically different …
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brain, integrate, micro, nintendo, research, Ryuta Kawashima, tasks, training | 3 CommentsHow the knowledge economy will change the way we work
April 3, 2010… is defined – as work places, roles and work hours cease to define work, what are left over are tasks, end results and customer needs. The knowledge, values, personal characteristics and life choices of employees will become highlighted. It is irrelevant what work roles or titles are involved in doing the work – if the company’s success relies with providing innovation and problem solving, the best available knowhow has to be matched with tasks that are defined to respond to specific …
knowledge economy, metacognitive skills, task-based work | 2 Comments← Older posts Newer posts →
