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Crowdbreaks: Tracking Health Trends Using Public Social Media Data and Crowdsourcing

In the past decade, tracking health trends using social media data has shown great promise, due to a powerful combination of massive adoption of social media around the world, and increasingly potent hardware and software that enables us to work with these ...

2019

Crowd dynamics, Co-creation, and Values in technology innovation: a case study in robotics

Kristina Schoonjans, Gianluigi Viscusi

In this article I am going to analyze crowd dynamics in co-creation settings (Cordella, Paletti, & Maha, 2018; Ramaswamy & Ozcan, 2018; Viscusi & Tucci, 2018). Furthermore, I am going to investigate the connection between these dynamics and the values info ...

2019

Ambiance in Social Media Venues: Visual Cue Interpretation by Machines and Crowds

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Gülcan Can, Yassir Benkhedda

We study the perception of ambiance of places captured in social media images by both machines and crowdworkers. This task is challenging due to the subjective nature of the ambiance construct as well as the large variety in layout, style, and visual chara ...

IEEE2018

Computing Crowd Consensus with Partial Agreement

Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Thành Tâm Nguyên

Crowdsourcing has been widely established as a means to enable human computation at large-scale, in particular for tasks that require manual labelling of large sets of data items. Answers obtained from heterogeneous crowd workers are aggregated to obtain a ...

2018

Routines and Practices in Cross-boundary Creative Projects

Giada Baldessarelli

In the past decades, literature on routines and practices has substantially contributed to our understanding of how actors accomplish organizational tasks through repetitive and recognizable patterns of interdependent actions situated in time and space. Ye ...

EPFL2018

Three Essays on Collective Forms of Organizing for Production and Innovation

Joana Rodrigues Pereira

This dissertation focuses on collective forms or organizing that through crowds or communities undertake production or innovation activities. Such organizations deviate from the traditional notions of hierarchy, authority, and control; however, they are st ...

EPFL2017

Crowd Dynamics and Crowd Capital in Small Teams: Insights from three crowdsourcing exercises in higher education

Christopher Tucci, Gianluigi Viscusi

In this work we aim to study “crowd” dynamics in small teams. To this end, we use the typology of crowds discussed in Viscusi and Tucci [2015] as an interpretive framework, arguing that other characteristics are relevant to identify crowds than the number ...

2017

Argument discovery via crowdsourcing

Karl Aberer, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Thành Tâm Nguyên, Chi Thang Duong

The amount of controversial issues being discussed on the Web has been growing dramatically. In articles, blogs, and wikis, people express their points of view in the form of arguments, i.e., claims that are supported by evidence. Discovery of arguments ha ...

Springer Verlag2017

Auction Based Mechanisms for Dynamic Task Assignments in Expert Crowdsourcing

Boi Faltings, Sujit Prakash Gujar

Crowdsourcing marketplaces link large populations of workers to an even larger number of tasks. Thus, it is necessary to have mechanisms for matching workers with interesting and suitable tasks. Earlier work has addressed the problem of finding optimal wor ...

Springer International Publishing Ag2017

Radical crowd based open innovation and design for sustainability

Collaborative “crowd” based open innovation and design as well as funding activities, websites, platforms and projects are becoming increasingly popular. These combine the creativity of people with new enabling technologies like online platforms, rapid pro ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

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