Hi, some of you might be interested: The new "Human Computation" Journal just published its first issue (open access) and also features one interesting piece about Wikipedia.
Cheers, Fabian
(disclosure: I'm on the editorial board)
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Read the full letter from the Editors here. |
First issue – Greeting from the Editors
Dear Colleagues,Research: Group minds and the case of Wikipedia
Using Wikipedia as a case study, the author evaluates the hypothesis that group level mental states can be distinct from and irreducible to the mental states of its individual constituents.· Simon DeDeo · | → read
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Research: The three sides of CrowdTruth
Disagreement among crowdworkers may in fact be informative about problematic tasks; the authors provide an empirical framework to leverage the diversity of human opinion.· Lora Aroyo and Chris Welty · | → read
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Research: Toward complexity measures for systems involving HC
Can human computation problems be classified according to their complexity and needed resources, like computer algorithms? A theoretical foundation for performance-based modeling in HC is proposed to achieve just that.· R. Jordan Crouser, Benjamin Hescott, Remco Chang · | → read now |
Research: Architecting real-time crowd-powered systems
A survey of crowd-powered systems provides the draft for an architectural framework for systematically replicating recent successes in designing and implementing such on-demand systems.· Walter S. Lasecki, Christopher Homan, Jeffrey P. Bigham · | → read now |
Opinion: Learning to count
As we build systems collecting and aggregating human contributions, we are well-advised to preserve and recognize the impact of individual voices and actions.· Mary Catherine Bateson · | → read
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