TY - GEN
T1 - Crowdsourcing as a tool for research
T2 - 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2017
AU - Law, Edith
AU - Gajos, Krzysztof Z.
AU - Wiggins, Andrea
AU - Gray, Mary L.
AU - Williams, Alex
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 ACM.
PY - 2017/2/25
Y1 - 2017/2/25
N2 - Numerous crowdsourcing platforms are now available to support research as well as commercial goals. However, crowdsourcing is not yet widely adopted by researchers for generating, processing or analyzing research data. This study develops a deeper understanding of the circumstances under which crowdsourcing is a useful, feasible or desirable tool for research, as well as the factors that may influence researchers' decisions around adopting crowdsourcing technology. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 18 researchers in diverse disciplines, spanning the humanities and sciences, to illuminate how research norms and practitioners' dispositions were related to uncertainties around research processes, data, knowledge, delegation and quality. The paper concludes with a discussion of the design implications for future crowdsourcing systems to support research.
AB - Numerous crowdsourcing platforms are now available to support research as well as commercial goals. However, crowdsourcing is not yet widely adopted by researchers for generating, processing or analyzing research data. This study develops a deeper understanding of the circumstances under which crowdsourcing is a useful, feasible or desirable tool for research, as well as the factors that may influence researchers' decisions around adopting crowdsourcing technology. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 18 researchers in diverse disciplines, spanning the humanities and sciences, to illuminate how research norms and practitioners' dispositions were related to uncertainties around research processes, data, knowledge, delegation and quality. The paper concludes with a discussion of the design implications for future crowdsourcing systems to support research.
KW - Citizen science
KW - Crowdsourcing for research
KW - Interviews
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U2 - 10.1145/2998181.2998197
DO - 10.1145/2998181.2998197
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85014787889
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 1544
EP - 1561
BT - CSCW 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 25 February 2017 through 1 March 2017
ER -