Williams, A., Kaur, H., Iqbal, S., White, R., Teevan, J., Fourney, A., (2019) Mercury: Empowering Programmers’ Mobile Work Practices with Microproductivity. University of Waterloo, University of Michigan, Microsoft Research. UIST '19, October 20–23, 2019, New Orleans, LA, USA. DOI: 10.1145/3332165.3347932

Macalester College

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/microtasks-and-microproductivity/

Microsoft's Microproductivity Research Team Overview

Cai, C. J., Iqbal, S. T., &amp; Teevan, J. (2016). Chain Reactions: The Impact of Order on Microtask Chains. Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858237 

Chain Reactions: The Impact of Order on Microtask Chains

Teevan, J., Iqbal, S. T., & Von Veh, C. (2016, May). Supporting Collaborative Writing with Microtasks. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems (pp. 2657-2668).

Supporting Collaborative Writing with Microtasks

Salehi, N., Teevan, J., Iqbal, S., Kamar, E., (2017) Communicating Context to the Crowd for Complex Writing Tasks. Stanford University, Microsoft Research. 
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998332

Communicating Context to the Crowd for Complex Writing Tasks 

Mercury: Empowering Programmers’ Mobile Work Practices with Microproductivity

 Kappen, D., Johannsmeier, J., Nacke, L.,(2013) Deconstructing ‘Gamified’ Task-Management Applications. Stratford, Ontario, Canada, October 2-4, 2013. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2583008.2583034

 Deconstructing ‘Gamified’ Task-Management Applications 

Teevan, J., (2016) The future of Microtasks. Microsoft Research Team. XRDS. WINTER 2016. VOL .23.  NO.2  DOI: 10.1145/3019600

The future of Microproductivity

- The Microsoft Research Team is exploring microproductivity in the context of writing. They chose writing as a model productivity task because it requires fundamental, but varied, skills such as reading, analysis, reasoning, and communication. As such, writing tools provide a valuable lens through which to understand and explore a range of problems related to information work. Writing is also a “fun” domain to study because the task is not obviously decomposable. 
- To understand how to successfully transform the creation of written text into lightweight microtasks, they have brought together experts in the domains of attention management, crowdsourcing, natural language processing, machine learning, personal information management, computer-supported cooperative work, and artificial intelligence. 


Microsoft's Microproductivity Research Team (Focus and interest) 

Cheng, J., Teevan, J., Iqbal, S. T., & Bernstein, M. S. (2015). Break it down: A comparison of macro-and microtasks. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 4061-4064).

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