Curio: a platform for crowdsourcing research tasks in sciences and humanities

Curio is intended to be a platform for crowdsourcing research tasks in sciences and humanities. The platform is designed to allow researchers to create and launch a new crowdsourcing project within minutes, monitor and control aspects of the crowdsourcing process with minimal effort. With Curio, we are exploring a brand new model of citizen science that significantly lowers the barrier of entry for scientists, developing new interfaces and algorithms for supporting mixed-expertise crowdsourcing, and investigating a variety of human computation questions related to task decomposition, incentive design and quality control.