The Crowdsourcing Design Space

Crowdsourcing is a new kind of organizational structure, one that is conducive to large amounts of short parallel work: thousands of individuals may work for several minutes on tasks, their outputs aggregated into a useful product or service. The dimensions of this new organizational form are described. Areas for future research are identified, focusing on open-ended tasks and the coordination structures that might foster collective creativity.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: HCI
• Authors: Yasuaki Sakamoto, Yuko Tanaka, Lixiu Yu, Jeffrey V. Nickerson
• Keywords: Collective Creativity, Future Research, HCI 2011, Human Computer Interaction, Parallel Work