04/08/2020 – Yuhang Liu – CrowdScape: Interactively Visualizing User Behavior and Output

Summary:

This article proposes that the crowdsourcing platform is a very good tool and can help people solve quite a few problems. It can help people quickly allocate work and complete tasks on a large scale. Therefore, the work quality of the workers on the crowdsourcing platform is very important. In the previous research, other researchers have developed algorithms on the inspection of the workers ’work quality and the workers’ behavior to detect the workers ’work quality, but these algorithms are all It has limitations, especially those complex tasks. The manual assessment of the quality of tasks completed by workers can solve this problem, but when many workers are needed, it cannot be scaled well. Therefore, based on this background, the author created CrowdScape, which can support the inspection of the work quality of crowdsourced workers through interactive visualization and hybrid active machine learning. The system’s approach is to combine information about worker behavior and worker output to better explain the work of the workers. This system mainly completes the exploration of workers’ work quality through the development and application of the following functions. : 1 Build an interface that can interactively browse the results of crowd workers, and explain the performance of workers by combining the information of workers’ behavior and output 2 Can visualize the behavior of mass workers 3 Can explore the products of mass workers 4 Tools for grouping and classifying workers 5 Combine machine learning to guide users’ intuition to the masses.

Reflection:

The system introduced in this article has many innovations, the most important of which is the ability to combine the behavior of workers with the output of workers, which is beneficial to study the behavior of workers with different performances. This is what we often say that the result is determined by the process. The author incorporates this into the research. I think it is a very innovative point, through this vigorous research, we can get the working behavior of workers with different results, and in the subsequent research, we can not only focus on workers with good output. The more important meaning is that the behavior guidance can be summarized through the behavior of workers with good output, and the behavior guidance can be used to guide the workers to complete the task better. And another innovation point I think is to visualize the interactive process. As we all know, people can better receive visual information. I think this is also feasible when evaluating the work effect of crowdsourced workers. Visualizing the interaction process of crowdsourced workers can help people better study the behavior of workers, and at the same time can improve people’s understanding of the performance of crowdsourced workers at work, and it also help us design ideas for crowdsourcing tasks. At the same time, the system’s dynamic query system can quickly analyze large data sets by providing users with immediate feedback. I think Crowddscape is based on these points in order to better discover people’s work patterns and understand the essence of crowdsourcing. And constantly adapt to more complex and innovative crowdsourcing tasks.

Question:

  1. Whether the quality of workers ’work must be related to behavior, and how the system prevents some workers achieving good results with inappropriate behavior?
  2. When workers know their behavior will be recorded, if it will affect their work?
  3. Is there any other method to lead workers to have a better output?

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