Wisdom of Crowd: a survey and taxonomy of crowdsourced problems
Advisor Information
Lotfollah Najjar
Location
Milo Bail Student Center Omaha Room
Presentation Type
Oral Presentation
Start Date
8-3-2013 2:15 PM
End Date
8-3-2013 2:30 PM
Abstract
The internet enables large scale collaborations between individuals who are geographically separated. Enabling features include email, blogs, knowledge sharing communities, and wikis. This people-centric technology has large socio-technical impact and allows individuals to participate flexibly in collaborative tasks. This flexibility has allowed tapping the “collective intelligence” of individuals for some tasks. Various new technology and business model has emerged to capitalize the revolution. The relatively new trend by an organization is to utilize the wisdom and labor from the stranger people to solve an open problem with the help of web mediated technology, this new trend is called “Crowdsourcing”. Crowdsourcing is an act of outsource a task to the undefined large number of people in the open form. Crowdsourcing has been used in variety of industries web-based t-shirt company, sells photos and video clips, to solve the R&D challenges etc. Though Crowdsourcing can be used to solve various types of problems from wide variety of organizations, but not much research has been attempted to categorize the various problem domain that can be crowdsource. Of particular in this paper we investigate the type of problems that can be crowdsource. Based on our initial investigation, problem that can be solved by crowdsourcing can be broadly categorize in simple and complex problem which further can be classified in innovative, creative, and specific to environment of the problem.
Wisdom of Crowd: a survey and taxonomy of crowdsourced problems
Milo Bail Student Center Omaha Room
The internet enables large scale collaborations between individuals who are geographically separated. Enabling features include email, blogs, knowledge sharing communities, and wikis. This people-centric technology has large socio-technical impact and allows individuals to participate flexibly in collaborative tasks. This flexibility has allowed tapping the “collective intelligence” of individuals for some tasks. Various new technology and business model has emerged to capitalize the revolution. The relatively new trend by an organization is to utilize the wisdom and labor from the stranger people to solve an open problem with the help of web mediated technology, this new trend is called “Crowdsourcing”. Crowdsourcing is an act of outsource a task to the undefined large number of people in the open form. Crowdsourcing has been used in variety of industries web-based t-shirt company, sells photos and video clips, to solve the R&D challenges etc. Though Crowdsourcing can be used to solve various types of problems from wide variety of organizations, but not much research has been attempted to categorize the various problem domain that can be crowdsource. Of particular in this paper we investigate the type of problems that can be crowdsource. Based on our initial investigation, problem that can be solved by crowdsourcing can be broadly categorize in simple and complex problem which further can be classified in innovative, creative, and specific to environment of the problem.