SoCS: Collaborative Research: Strategies for Crowdsourcing Complex Design Work

SoCS：协作研究：众包复杂设计工作的策略

• 批准号: 1210836
• 负责人: Bjoern Hartmann
• 金额: $ 37.5万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1210836&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SoCS; Collaborative; Research; Strategies; Crowdsourcing

This project investigates how education and training methods from traditional work settings can be applied to paid online crowdsourcing. The focus is on how methods such as scaffolding, examples, critique, and apprenticeship affect worker performance, learning, task perseverance, and satisfaction. The project will produce guidelines for a more sustainable crowdsourcing infrastructure where employers can embed relevant domain knowledge into online tasks, and workers can learn key principles and then train less experienced members. The research focuses on worker-centered training strategies in the domain of visual design, which will yield knowledge about effective design principles and instructional methods for visual design. Broader impacts: The project will contribute to increase the availability of online work. It will expand the capabilities and skills of crowd workers, thereby allowing online work to become a more viable part of the American economy. The project will also lead to novel methods for organizations to achieve complex visual design work. More generally, the project will lead to new knowledge about how to train crowds to perform a complex activity and produce practical guidelines to help requesters write tasks and manage the crowd. Finally, the project will provide interdisciplinary training for graduate and undergraduate students in socio-computational system design, HCI concepts, educational theory, and evaluation methodologies. All course materials will be available online for reuse and adaptation. Undergraduate researcher training will focus on supporting underrepresented student groups.

该项目调查了如何将传统工作环境中的教育和培训方法应用于付费的在线众包。重点是脚手架，实例，批评和学徒等方法如何影响工人绩效，学习，任务毅力和满意度。该项目将为更可持续的众包基础设施制定准则，雇主可以将相关的领域知识嵌入在线任务中，工人可以学习关键原则，然后培训较不太有经验的成员。该研究重点是视觉设计领域中以工人为中心的培训策略，该策略将获得有关视觉设计的有效设计原理和教学方法的知识。更广泛的影响：该项目将有助于增加在线工作的可用性。它将扩大人群工人的能力和技能，从而使在线工作成为美国经济中更可行的一部分。 该项目还将为组织实现复杂的视觉设计工作提供新的方法。更一般而言，该项目将导致有关如何培训人群进行复杂活动的新知识，并制定实用指南，以帮助请求者编写任务并管理人群。最后，该项目将为社会计算系统设计，HCI概念，教育理论和评估方法的研究生和本科生提供跨学科培训。所有课程材料将在线提供以进行重复使用和适应。本科研究人员培训将专注于支持代表性不足的学生群体。