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Everybody who uses public transportation knows how unpredictable bus schedules can be, especially during rush hour. You never know if you are going to be waiting for a minute or an hour for a potentially overflowing bus to arrive. Carnegie Mellon University has developed a new iPhone application, called Tiramisu, that uses the power of […]

This is an interesting article on how Turkers react to how rewards are displayed in a crowdsourcing application: Labor Allocation in Paid Crowdsourcing: Experimental Evidence on Positioning, Nudges and Prices by Dana Chandler (MIT) and John Horton (oDesk) http://danachandler.com/UI-and-Economics_paper.html They blogged about it at: http://crowdresearch.org/blog/?p=1435&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FollowTheCrowd+%28Follow+the+Crowd%29 Dr. Sarvapali D. Ramchurn Lecturer (Roberts Fellow), Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia […]

http://www.un-spider.org/about-us/news/en/5225/2011-07-05t161400/google-crowdsourcing-crisis-information-crisis-mapping-and Facebook is increasingly used to crowdsource crisis information and response, as is Twitter. So is it just a matter of time until we see similar use cases with Google+? Another question I have is whether such uses cases will simply reflect more of the same or whether we’ll see new, unexpected applications and dynamics? […]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.5568    Photos taken by smartphone users can accidentally contain content that is timely and valuable to others, often in real-time. We report the system design and evaluation of a distributed search system, Theia, for crowd-sourced real-time content search of smartphone photos. Because smartphones are resource-constrained, Theia incorporates two key innovations to control search cost […]

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