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Crowdsourcing is simply the outsourcing of different tasks or work to a diverse group of individuals in an open call for the purpose of utilizing human intelligence. Crowdsourcing nowadays used to support and enhance software engineering in ...

This study explores how people perceive the potential utility of trustworthiness indicators and how willing they are to consider contributing to them as a way to combat the problem of misinformation and disinformation on social media. Analysis of ...

Websites use third-party ads and tracking services to deliver targeted ads and collect information about users that visit them. These services put users’ privacy at risk, and that is why users’ demand for blocking these services is growing. Most of the ...

Filter lists play a large and growing role in protecting and assisting web users. The vast majority of popular filter lists are crowd-sourced, where a large number of people manually label resources related to undesirable web resources (e.g. ads, ...

Whenever a car owner drives to a destination, the first thing to consider is parking. Due to the lack of parking facilities, car owners are forced to park along the secondary or sometimes main roads to go about their business. With smart phones ...

We explore the effects of providing task context when evaluating visualization tools using crowdsourcing. We gave crowdsource workers i) abstract information visualization tasks without any context, ii) tasks where we added semantics to the dataset, and ...

As an emerging and promising approach, crowdsourcing-based software development becomes popular in many domains due to the participation of talented pool of developers in the contests, and to promote the ability of requesters (or customers) to choose the ...

Crowdsource management imposes many challenges including varying degree of demands for food and daily routine consumables. The explicit problem for estimating increase or decrease in demand arises when crowd moves dynamically to different locations with ...

Vibrotactile (VT) display is becoming a standard component of informative user experience, where notifications and feedback must convey information eyes-free. However, effective design is hindered by incomplete understanding of relevant perceptual ...

Large annotated images from the Web and crowdsource, together with powerful machine learning tools, play a crucial role in rapid progress in semantic recognition of image data in recent years. However, as inferred in the saying "A Picture is Worth More ...

Social help systems are changing the role of professional technical communicators from directly writing documentation to the support of amateurs who write documentation. This paper looks at one genre of social documentation---the crowdsourced ...

Founded in May 2009, Microworkers.com is an international Crowdsourcing platform focusing on Microtasks. At present, more than 600,000 users from over 190 countries have already registered to our platform. This extensively diverse workforce is the key ...

Digital information can bridge age-old gaps in access to information in traditionally underserved areas of the world. However, for those unfamiliar with abundant e-resources, their early exposure to the digital world can be like "drinking from a fire ...

VTIS is a dynamic notification system that takes in a user's route and calculates the time-delay imposed by disruptions to the normal traversal. The disruptions are calculated by using crowdsourced notifications. This is accomplished by the creation of ...