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This workshop focuses on how to integrate crowdsourcing into existing organizations and businesses. It presents the benefits and drawbacks of crowdsourcing. It shows how to identify activities that might be easily crowdsourced and suggests ways to assess crowdsource activities to ensure that they contribute to the business goals. Finally, it presents an overview of the crowdsourcing industry and the state of that industry.
Business leaders who want to know more about crowdsourcing or who think that they might have an activity that lends itself to crowdsourcing, or would like to know what kind of work that they can give to a crowdsourcing company.
David Alan Grier is the author of When Computers Were Human, first VP IEEE Computer Society, and associate professor of International Sciene and Technology Policy at The George Washington University, where he also teaches a course on crowdsourcing.
This workshop focuses on research and engineering related topics of crowdsourcing and will highlight the latest crowdsourcing applications and tools relevant to research studies. This hands on workshop will feature demos, discussions, and brainstorming sessions and attendees will be supplied with a full set of tutorial notes and supporting bibliography.
Academics, researchers and engineers who want to learn about the capabilities and limitations of crowdsourcing techniques.
Omar Alonso is a Technical Lead in the Bing team at Microsoft and has been working as a researcher applying crowdsourcing to a diverse set of applications. He has published a number of articles on human computation/crowdsourcing and participated in many workshops and meetups.
Matthew Lease is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. He served on the Program Committee at CrowdConf 2010 and is co-editing a special issue of Springer's Information Retrieval journal on Crowdsourcing. He has published various papers in the area and taught a graduate-level course on crowdsourcing at UT Austin in Spring 2011.
