{"id":271,"date":"2020-01-30T13:40:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T13:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs6724s20\/?p=271"},"modified":"2020-01-30T13:40:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T13:40:33","slug":"mohannad-al-ameedi-human-computation-a-survey-and-taxonomy-of-a-growing-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs6724s20\/2020\/01\/30\/mohannad-al-ameedi-human-computation-a-survey-and-taxonomy-of-a-growing-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohannad Al Ameedi – Human Computation: A Survey and Taxonomy of a Growing Field"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Summary<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In this paper, the authors aim\nto classify the Human Computation systems and compare\/contrast the term with\nother terms like crowdsourcing, social computing, and data mining. The paper\nstarts by presenting some definitions of the human computation where all refer to\nit as a utilizing the human power to solve problems that can\u2019t be solved by the\ncomputers yet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The paper present different\ncomputational systems that share some properties with the human computation and\nyet they are different. The authors highlight some computational systems like\nsocial computing, crowdsourcing, and data mining and show the similarities and distinctions\nwith the human computation systems. All systems grouped together under the\ncollective intelligence where humans\u2019 intel solve a big problem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The paper presents a classification\nsystem for human computation systems that is based on six dimensions. The dimensions\ninclude motivation, quality control, aggregation, human skills, process order,\nand task-request cardinality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The authors presented\ndifferent ways to that can motivate people to participate in the systems like\npay, altruism, enjoyment and others. And presents the pros and cons for each\napproach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The authors also presented\ndifferent approach to improve the quality of the systems like output or input agreements,\nexpert review, and multilevel reviews and ground truth seeding. All these approaches\ntry to get better quality and ways to measure the performance of the system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are different aggregation\napproaches that collect the results of the tasks completed and to formulate the\nsolution of the global problem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other dimensions like human skills, process order, and task-request cardinality discuss that skills required, the way order is processed and the pipeline the request can go through. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reflection<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I found one interesting definition\nof human computation interesting. It defines it as \u201csystems of computers and\nlarge numbers of humans that work together in order to solve problems that can\u2019t\nbe solved by either computers or humans\u201d. It is try that if humans can solve problems\nthen there will be no need to use computers and also if systems can solve the\nproblems and automate the solution then there will be no need for humans so\nboth need to work together to solve bigger problems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also found the comparison between\ndifferent systems including the human computation interesting. I personally was\nthinking that some systems like crowdsourcing is a human computation system,\nbut it appears it is not.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I agree with the dimensions\nthat define or classify human computation systems as they are accurate measures\nthat help researchers to build new system and to evaluate it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To connect to other ideas, I\nfound the work is like dynamic programming where we have to solve small problems\nto eventually solve the global problem. Small tasks are distributed to workers\nto solve a small problem and then aggregation methods will take these solutions\nto solve the global problem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also found the ground truth seeding quality control approach in similar to the training and testing data in any machine learning algorithm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Questions<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
  • What other dimensions can\nwe define to classify a human computation system?<\/li>
  • There are different approaches\nthat can measure the quality of a human computation systems. Which one is the\nbest? <\/li>
  •  Can we combine to motivation methods together to\nget better results? Like combining both pay and the enjoyment to solve a global\nproblem? <\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Summary In this paper, the authors aim to classify the Human Computation systems and compare\/contrast the term with other terms like crowdsourcing, social computing, and data mining. The paper starts by presenting some definitions of the human computation where all refer to it as a utilizing the human power to solve problems that can\u2019t be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,41],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class2","tag-hcompsurvey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs6724s20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs6724s20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs6724s20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs6724s20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs6724s20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs6724s20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs6724s20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs6724s20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs6724s20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs6724s20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}