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Crowd Labs Incorporated
November 22, 2010… did at CrowdConf this year ) to crowdsourced labor: a global pool of potential subjects who’ll work for a fraction of the price, and don’t need travel expenses.
It’s a concept the research community is just beginning to get behind. Some classic thought experiments – like the prisoner’s dilemma and the Asian disease problem have already been tried out using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
One ingenious Harvard PhD candidate – John Horton – also used Mechanical Turk for …
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Amazon Mechanical Turk, crowd, Crowdflower, crowdsourcing, crowdsourcing platform, distributed work, experiments, iPhone, John Horton, Psychology, Social sciences, workers | 1 CommentTeaching kids to win
October 7, 2010… required to achieve the state of flow. As discussed in the earlier post, if you could make work more like a game, you would have more success engaging your workforce. Or, if the methods of Lee Sheldon are anything to go by, your classroom.
Class war
Sheldon teaches courses in game design. When teaching his students difficult concepts, he uses the terminology, structure and reward systems of the World of Warcraft MMOG to motivate and grade them. The results include increased …
The Future of Work: Paid to Play?
January 26, 2010Share
Boredom at work is a big problem. In fact it’s one of the main reasons people complain about their jobs. Imagine if work could be as entertaining as your favourite game and what this could mean for work satisfaction and productivity.
The Problem with Work
Many people believe that work is a boring but necessary requirement for enjoying ‘real life’ outside work. This belief is negative for both …
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fun, game design, games, job, reCAPTCHA MMORPG, SEGA, task, Typing of the Dead, work | 5 CommentsWork Hard, Play Hard (then Die Hard)
December 21, 2009… lifetime?
I would say that only a few exceptional people are passionate enough about their work to bring it up at this point. Just before Leonardo da Vinci died he reputedly said “I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have”. Given what he accomplished (remember that he died in 1519, so cannot be held in anyway responsible for either The Da Vinci Code or Angels and Demons movies) his parting words seem a little harsh. But is part …
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gold farming, Mechanical Turk, turking, work, workaholism, world of warcraft | 2 CommentsPicture this: introducing the Descriptive Camera
May 16, 2012… of your image (it turns out a picture is in fact worth about 150 words).
So how does it work? Advanced pattern-recognition software? Quantum Entanglement? A tiny prehistoric bird? The answer, as regular readers of this blog will probably have guessed, is crowdsourcing. The Descriptive Camera uploads images to Mechanical Turk, where users are paid a small fee for providing a brief text description. Thanks to the popularity of Mechanical Turk, and the relatively high price per task …
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