Lessons Learned from Crowdsourcing Complex Engineering Tasks.

ABSTRACT:

Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing is the practice of obtaining needed ideas, services, or content by requesting contributions from a large group of people. Amazon Mechanical Turk is a web marketplace for crowdsourcing microtasks, such as answering surveys and image tagging. We explored the limits of crowdsourcing by using Mechanical Turk for a more complicated task: analysis and creation of wind simulations.

Harnessing crowdworkers for engineering

Our investigation examined the feasibility of using crowdsourcing for complex, highly technical tasks. This was done to determine if the benefits of crowdsourcing could be harnessed to accurately and effectively contribute to solving complex real world engineering problems. Of course, untrained crowds cannot be used as a mere substitute

SUBMITTER: Staffelbach M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4575153 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature