Campus-scale mobile crowd-tasking: Deployment & Behavioral insights

  • Thivya Kandappu
  • , Archan Misra
  • , Shih Fen Cheng
  • , Nikita Jaiman
  • , Randy Tandriansiyah
  • , Cen Chen
  • , Hoong Chuin Lau
  • , Deepthi Chander
  • , Koustuv Dasgupta

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

36 Scopus citations

Abstract

Mobile crowd-tasking markets are growing at an unprecedented rate with increasing number of smartphone users. Such platforms differ from their online counterparts in that they demand physical mobility and can benefit from smartphone processors and sensors for verification purposes. Despite the importance of such mobile crowd-tasking markets, little is known about the labor supply dynamics and mobility patterns of the users. In this paper we design, develop and experiment with a realworld mobile crowd-tasking platform, called TA$Ker. Our contributions are two-fold: (a) We develop TA$Ker, a system that allows us to empirically study the worker responses to push vs. pull strategies for task recommendation and selection. (b) We evaluate our system via experimentation with 80 real users on our campus, over a 4 week period with a corpus of over 1000 tasks. We then provide an in-depth analysis of labor supply, worker behavior & task selection preferences (including the phenomenon of super agents who complete large portions of the tasks) and the efficacy of pushbased approaches that recommend tasks based on predicted movement patterns of individual workers.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2016
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages800-812
Number of pages13
ISBN (Electronic)9781450335928
DOIs
StatePublished - 27 Feb 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2016 - San Francisco, United States
Duration: 27 Feb 20162 Mar 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
Volume27

Conference

Conference19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco
Period27/02/162/03/16

Keywords

  • Labor supply dynamics
  • Mobile crowdsourcing
  • Mobility patterns
  • Recommendations

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Campus-scale mobile crowd-tasking: Deployment & Behavioral insights'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this