The practice of completing microproductivity microtasks by the task owner’s friends or colleagues.

Macalester College

Soliciting support from peers (via “friendsourcing”) or paid crowd workers (via “crowdsourcing”) is easy with microproductivity, because sharing a self-contained microtask with another person requires almost no coordination overhead. Microtasks can be allocated to the most appropriate person depending on the required level of expertise, the person’s availability, and their familiarity with the task. 

Microtask Sourcing 

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 practice of the task owner completing their own microproductivity microtasks.

Microtask Selfsourcing 

Microtask friendsourcing

The practice of completing microtasks by using a group of remote workers.

Microtask Crowdsourcing

Some common microtasks do not actually need to be done by a person. Instead, they can be done automatically. By incorporating automation as one form of task sourcing, microproductivity systems offer a pathway for integrating artificial intelligence into productivity tasks that are currently impossible to automate.

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