20. The Bored at Work Network â Hundreds of millions of bored office workers sit in front of computers forwarding emails, blogging, IMing, and playing on social network sites. These distracted corporate employees have accidentally created the Bored at Work Network (BWN) -- a huge people-powered network with greater even reach than traditional networks like CNN, ABC, or the BBC.â -Jonah Peretti
21. How many man hours are being spent on playing Solitaire every year?
29. Soylent Green the Soylent Grid team estimates that Digg users could identify an image approximately every 17 seconds. That's far from fast enough for someone hurrying through their shopping. Belongie estimates that five seconds would be an acceptable turnaround time, so GroZi would need 25 times the CAPTCHA-producing power of Digg University of California at San Diego
31. Human-based computation It's a technique when a computational process performs its function via outsourcing certain steps to humans (Kosorukoff, 2001)â
32. Human-based Computation In traditional computation, a human employs a computer to solve a problem: a human provides a formalized problem description to a computer, and receives a solution to interpret. In human-based computation, the roles are often reversed: the computer asks a person or a large number of people to solve a problem, then collects, interprets, and integrates their solutions .
33. What motivates participants in human-based motivation programs? * Receiving a fair share of the result * Direct monetary compensation (e.g. in Amazon's Mechanical turk, ChaCha Search guide)â * Desire to diversify their activity (e.g. "people aren't asked in their daily lives to be creative" [1])â * Aesthetic satisfaction * Curiosity, desire to test if it works * Volunteerism, desire to support a cause of the project * Reciprocity, exchange, mutual help * Competitive spirit of a game * Desire to communicate and share knowledge * Desire to share a user innovation to see if someone else can improve on it * Desire to game the system and influence the final result
38. What is crowdsourcing? ...the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call
81. sense of community 1. feelings of membership 2. feelings of influence 3. integration and fulfillment of needs 4. shared emotional connection (McMillan and Chavis, 1986)â
82. feelings of membership #arise from the creation of community boundaries #perception of emotinal safety sense of belonging to and #identification with use of common symbols, language, etc
83. Feelings of membership includes: personal profile pages, "friending" definign groups witin the lagarger group, invitations to groups allow for lots of personal and groups expression greet new members and introduce them to others with similar interests
84. feelings of influence #being able to influence group (voice heard)â #being able to be influenced by gropup (learning) #feedback responsiveness #rule enforecement and creation by members #maintenance of norms within the group
85. feelings of influence includes: forums, chat, comments, blogging, personalized amil create many ways in which members can connect and platforms for expression
86. Integration and fulfillment of needs # feeling of being supported by others # rewards of being a member, such as status, expertise # shared values #feeling of competence within group