Inproceedings,
Human computation: a survey and taxonomy of a growing field
Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems, page 1403--1412. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2011)
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979148
Abstract
The rapid growth of human computation within research and industry has produced many novel ideas aimed at organizing web users to do great things. However, the growth is not adequately supported by a framework with which to understand each new system in the context of the old. We classify human computation systems to help identify parallels between different systems and reveal "holes" in the existing work as opportunities for new research. Since human computation is often confused with "crowdsourcing" and other terms, we explore the position of human computation with respect to these related topics.
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- cirg
- collective
- computation
- computing
- crowdsourcing
- data-mining
- dblp
- gamification
- human
- human-computation
- humanbasedcomputation
- human_computation
- intelligence
- literature-review
- social
- social-computing
- social_computing
- survey
- taxonomy
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- @jaeschke 12 years ago (last updated 12 years ago)An excellent article that reviews definitions for social computing, human computing, crowdsourcing, collective intelligence, and data mining and then compares and distinguishes the different fields. The article focuses on human computing/computation where different dimensions are identified into which systems are then categorized: motivation, quality control, aggregation, human skill, process order and task-request cardinality. A must-read if you are interested in one of the above-mentioned fields, in particular human computing. The paper also contains a noteable list of 74 references relevant to human computing/collective intelligence.