When to ask for help: Optimizing projects for crowdsourcing

  • Peter Organisciak | University of Illinois

A growing online phenomenon is that of crowdsourcing, where groups of disparate people, connected through technology, contribute to a common product. It refers to the collaborative possibilities of a communications medium as flexible and as populated as the Internet. If many hands make light work, crowdsourcing websites show how light the work can be, breaking tasks into hundreds of pieces for hundreds of hands. Building from the growing body of research in the area including the author’s work on crowd motivations, this talk outlines the considerations necessary in enriching projects through crowdsourcing and discusses ways to interpret the resulting data

Speaker Details

Peter Organisciak is a doctoral student in Information Science at the University of Illinois, with a Masters degree in Humanities Computing. His research is in the value and incentives of user contributions in information systems.

Series: Microsoft Research Talks