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The key motivation of this paper is to distinguish the definition of human computation with other terms such as “crowdsourcing”. The author also explored the accurate definition of human computation and developed the classification system so that it provides directions for research on human computation. The author also analyzed human computation and demonstrated the key idea with a graph. The graph includes the motivation of people who work on this computation, how to control the quality and how to aggregate the work. Finally, what kind of skills required for human computation, and the regular process order for them. There are several overlaps between human computation and other terms. The definition of human computing is summarized by the author based on all kinds of definition source as two main points: First, the problem fit the general computing paradigm so could be solved one day. Second, human participants are guided by computing systems or processes. The author compared human computation with related ideas and present a classification system based on the six most significant distinguishing factors. This paper is mainly about the taxonomy of human computation, however, the author indicates the future usage of these classifications and the future direction of research such as the issues related to ethics and labor standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This article provides a clear definition of human computation, which I think is the most important step before trying to explore more information or expressing any opinion on this topic. I prefer the definition “…a technique to let humans solve tasks, which cannot be solved by computers.”, although we know these problems could be solved one day with the development of technology. Just look at the motivation indicated by the author, I would consider the human computation is an inevitable trend as the reveal of the deficiency of Artificial Intelligent and as the need of network users. There is an interesting contradiction that happens to me when I was read the paper. When I check the graph of the “classification system for human computation systems overview”, I found the author indicates one of the motivations is altruism. I was skeptical and I do not believe until I saw the example, “thousands of online volunteers combed through over 560,000 satellite images hoping to determine Gray’s location, who was missing during a sailing trip in early 2007”, I think it’s the best reason. The book “ghost work” could be one type of work that included in human computation definition in the paper. The motivation of their work is payment, and a different job has a different process order. The tag of the picture could be considered as “Worker->Requester->Computer(WRC)”, while the Uber driver’s case might be “Computer-> Woker->Requester”. This paper is a summary and classification of the present state of human computation, without any innovative ideas. However, the follow-up work that the author put forward at the end is worth discussing. Especially the topic of issues related to ethics and labor standards. We do not have any kind of regulation for this mode of work. Thus, how to protect the workers? How to prevent the product from intentional destruction. How human computation will develop in the future\uff1f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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