Coordinating Advanced Crowd Work: Extending Citizen Science
Coordinating Advanced Crowd Work: Extending Citizen Science
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协调高级群体工作：扩展公民科学
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2018
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Carsten S. Østerlund
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Kevin Crowston;Erica Mitchell;Carsten S. Østerlund
本文介绍了一个在线公民科学项目的案例研究，该项目试图让志愿者参与具有多种依赖关系的任务，包括分析大量数据以及解读数据和撰写论文以供发表。具有更多依赖关系的任务需要更精细的协调机制。然而，项目与其志愿者之间的关系限制了工作的协调方式。相反，依赖关系和可用协调机制之间的不匹配可能导致绩效问题，正如该案例中所呈现的那样。研究结果为设计用于高级任务的在线公民科学项目提出了建议。
This paper presents a case study of an online citizen science project that attempted to involve volunteers in tasks with multiple dependencies including analyzing bulk data as well as interpreting data and writing a paper for publication. Tasks with more dependencies call for more elaborate coordination mechanisms. However, the relationship between the project and its volunteers limits how work can be coordinated. Contrariwise, a mismatch between dependencies and available coordination mechanisms can lead to performance problems, as were seen in the case. The results of the study suggest recommendations for design of online citizen science projects for advanced tasks.