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TurKit: A Toolkit for Human Computation Algorithms
1. 1 TurKit: A Toolkit for Human Computation Algorithms Rob Miller & Greg Little User Interface Design Group MIT CSAIL Joint work with Lydia Chilton, Max Goldman, Jeff Bigham, Aubrey Tatarowicz, Rajeev Najak, Michael Bernstein June 10, 2010
2. Outline Iterative human computation TurKit: a toolkit for human computation algorithms Systems with human computation inside VizWiz: vision for blind users with camera phones Soylent: putting a crowd inside Microsoft Word June 10, 2010 2
61. Outline Iterative human computation TurKit: a toolkit for human computation algorithms Systems with human computation inside VizWiz: vision for blind users with camera phones Soylent: putting a crowd inside Microsoft Word June 10, 2010 58
62. VizWiz: Helping the Blind See 59 joint work with Jeff Bigham (University of Rochester) Which door is the women’s restroom? June 10, 2010
63. Helping the Blind See 60 MechanicalTurk the left one LEFT on the left June 10, 2010
64. Field Study Field deployment with 11 blind iPhone users Answers received within a minute for ~5 cents a question Latency can be reduced to less than 30 seconds by keeping workers warmed up (at $4 per hour) June 10, 2010 61
65. All Mobile Users Are Situationally Disabled 62 joint work with Rajeev Najak MechanicalTurk When is Barack Obama speaking at MIT? June 10, 2010
66. Soylent: Putting a Crowd inside MS Word June 10, 2010 joint work with Michael Bernstein 63
69. Bigger Idea: REAL Wizard of Oz Wizard of Oz is a tried-and-true prototyping technique in AI and HCI Putting a human behind the curtain until we figure out how to put software there Crowd computing enables Wizard of Oz systems that are useful and deployable So we can start collecting data about how the system is really used in practice Adding the AI backend becomes a performance or cost optimization 66 June 10, 2010
70. Outline Iterative human computation TurKit: a toolkit for human computation algorithms Systems with human computation inside VizWiz: vision for blind users with camera phones Soylent: putting a crowd inside Microsoft Word Funded in part by June 10, 2010 67