An online crowdsourcing marketplace operated by Amazon where requesters post microtasks for a distributed, global pool of workers to complete for pay, allowing tasks to be accomplished faster and at lower cost than traditional methods.

Macalester College

Google

The use of microtasks to break down large-scale collaborative projects into small chunks that can be conducted individually and with little need for coordination between individual workers. 

Microtasks in Crowd Work

A system of collaborative writing that breaks the process down into three types of microtasks: 

- 1) Idea Generation: wherein collaborators brainstorm and collect raw ideas to be included in the final report;

- 2) Labelling: wherein these ideas are labelled and organized into clusters based on relatedness;

- 3) Writing: wherein related ideas collected under the same label are merged into a single coherent paragraph.


MicroWriter

Approach to support communication of task context between requester and crowd workers using short, structured tasks. The goal is to reduce the effort of communication and maximize guidance. 

Structured Communication for Complex tasks 

Completing a set of microtasks in succession. The ways that microtasks are ordered in a chain affects the extent to which people complete the tasks productively and accurately and continue to engage with subsequent tasks.

Microtask Chaining

In order to make microtask crowdsourcing more supportive for interface design,   a workflow that can help task owners to break down interface design tasks more easily is needed. This paper briefly describes three experiments that help inform various aspects of workflow design for interface design through microtask crowdsourcing.


A Brief Perspective on Microtask Crowdsourcing Workflows for Interface Design


Tools for Crowd Work

This paper proposed a micro-tasking framework that supports skill development of individual workers. Researchers designed the framework based on the review of two micro-tasking projects we have conducted. It consists of four key components, a tutorial generator, a task dispatcher, a feedback visualizer, and a skill assessment engine. The framework will help developers create sustainable micro-tasking systems


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