Human computation: a survey and taxonomy of a growing field

The rapid growth of human computation within research and industry has produced many novel ideas aimed at organizing web users to do great things. However, the growth is not adequately supported by a framework with which to understand each new system in the context of the old. We classify human computation systems to help identify parallels between different systems and reveal ―holes‖ in the existing work as opportunities for new research. Since human computation is often confused with ―crowdsourcing‖ and other terms, we explore the position of human computation with respect to these related topics. Author Keywords Human computation, crowdsourcing, taxonomy, survey, literature review, social computing, data mining ACM Classification Keywords H5.m. Information interfaces and presentation (e.g., HCI). General Keywords Theory

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Alexander J. Quinn, Benjamin B. Bederson
• Keywords: CHI 2011, Computation Systems, Human Computer Interaction, Information Interfaces, Survey Literature