Understanding Crowdsourcing as a Tool for Research

Many excellent crowdsourcing and citizen science tools exist to support research, but only a tiny fraction of researchers make use of them. Why? Our interviews with 18 researchers across disciplines revealed a number of differences between the assumptions underlying existing crowd- and citizen-powered platforms and the prevalent research practices and norms.

Edith Law, Krzysztof Z. Gajos, Andrea Wiggins, Mary L. Gray, and Alex Williams. Crowdsourcing As a Tool for Research: Implications of Uncertainty. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW '17, pages 1544–1561, New York, NY, USA, 2017. ACM.
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