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ERSA
2009
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13 years 2 months ago
Harnessing Human Computation Cycles for the FPGA Placement Problem
Harnessing human computation is an approach to find problem solutions. In this paper, we investigate harnessing this human computation for a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) p...
Luke Terry, Vladimir Roitch, Shoeb Tufail, Kirit S...
UIST
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
TurKit: human computation algorithms on mechanical turk
Mechanical Turk provides an on-demand source of human computation. This provides a tremendous opportunity to explore algorithms which incorporate human computation as a function c...
Greg Little, Lydia B. Chilton, Max Goldman, Robert...
AAAI
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Unknown Rewards in Finite-Horizon Domains
"Human computation" is a recent approach that extracts information from large numbers of Web users. reCAPTCHA is a human computation project that improves the process of...
Colin McMillen, Manuela M. Veloso
AAAI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
PhotoSlap: A Multi-player Online Game for Semantic Annotation
Multimedia content presents special challenges for the search engines, and could benefit from semantic annotation of images. Unfortunately, manual labeling is too tedious and tim...
Chien-Ju Ho, Tsung-Hsiang Chang, Jane Yung-jen Hsu
KDD
2009
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
A reputation system for selling human computation
We describe a reputation-driven market that motivates human computation sellers (workers) to produce optimal levels of quality when quality is not immediately measurable and contr...
Trevor Burnham, Rahul Sami
GI
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Serious Mobile Game for Landmark Production - A Work in Progress Report
: Serious games are defined as games with a purpose. These games serve a purpose beyond play in difference to games, whose purpose is nothing than the play activity itself. Human C...
Lars Harzem, Tobias Hartge, Carolin Hubatsch, Kevi...
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Exploring iterative and parallel human computation processes
Services like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk have opened the door for exploration of processes that outsource computation to humans. These human computation processes hold tremendous ...
Greg Little
CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Survey of Human Computation Systems
—Human computation is a technique that makes use of human abilities for computation to solve problems. The human computation problems are the problems those computers are not goo...
Man-Ching Yuen, Ling-Jyh Chen, Irwin King
KDD
2009
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
The role of game theory in human computation systems
The paradigm of “human computation” seeks to harness human abilities to solve computational problems or otherwise perform distributed work that is beyond the scope of current ...
Shaili Jain, David C. Parkes
KDD
2009
ACM
184views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Thumbs-Up: a game for playing to rank search results
Human computation is an effective way to channel human effort spent playing games to solving computational problems that are easy for humans but difficult for computers to autom...
Ali Dasdan, Chris Drome, Santanu Kolay, Micah Alpe...