Paper Info
Title
Age-Based task specialization for crowdsourced proofreading
Abstract
Crowdsourcing can efficiently produce accessible digital books for people with print disabilities. However, particularly in Japan, the proofreading step tends to be expensive because of language-related issues. The elderly population is a promising source of proofreaders. Our surveys found that they have strong linguistic skills and want to contribute to society. So why do they rarely participate in Internet-based work scenarios such as crowdsourcing? We introduce a collaborative crowdsourcing model that aims to fully utilize the linguistic skills of the elderly by encouraging younger people to support the elderly in overcoming their limited technical skills. We decompose each proofreading task into several types of sub-tasks, where some tasks require more linguistic skills while the other tasks need more technical skills, so that the linguistic and technical tasks can be distributed to older and younger participants, respectively. We also discuss other scenarios that may be suitable for such multi-generational crowdsourcing model.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-642-39191-0_12
HCI (7)
Keywords
Field
DocType
age-based task specialization,collaborative crowdsourcing model,linguistic skill,technical task,strong linguistic skill,internet-based work scenario,technical skill,younger participant,limited technical skill,elderly population,younger people,crowdsourcing,collaboration,accessibility
Population,World Wide Web,Crowdsourcing,Computer science,Proofreading,The Internet
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
16
0.99
11
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Masatomo Kobayashi131326.52
Tatsuya Ishihara2659.88
Toshinari Itoko3745.38
Hironobu Takagi474467.77
Chieko Asakawa591186.45