Paper Info
Title
New Frontiers for Crowdsourcing: The Extended Mind
Abstract
We introduce the concept of extended mind crowd sourcing (EMC) which capitalises on the way in which humans naturally extend their cognition into the environment, using external objects such as smartphones and applications to augment their mental capacity. This phenomenon means that human computation is embedded in data and devices, representing a new way through which human cognition can be accessed for collective discoveries. We relate EMC to existing sociological and psychological concepts and argue that it lies at the intersection of human computation, social computing and crowd sourcing. EMC is a way in which new problems and discoveries can be tackled, for example as necessitated by \"wicked\" problems, ethnography and culture. We relate EMC to diverse disciplines and point to ways in which the concept may develop in future. We exemplify EMC by presenting a case study where participation in location-based social networks is used to discover the correlation between mobility and human personality traits. This has involved participation from 43 countries and resulted in analysis of over half a million check-ins at street-level locations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/HICSS.2015.197
System Sciences
Keywords
Field
DocType
cognition,human factors,mobile computing,psychology,social networking (online),social sciences computing,emc,extended mind crowdsourcing,human computation,location-based social networks,mental capacity,psychological concepts,sociological concepts,foursquare,crowdsourcing,distributed cognition,extended mind,networked individualism,participatory computing,personality,social computing,media,outsourcing,electromagnetic compatibility
The Extended Mind,Social network,Computer science,Crowdsourcing,Outsourcing,Knowledge management,Phenomenon,Social computing,Cognition,Ethnography
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1530-1605
6
0.43
References 
Authors
21
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Roger M. Whitaker135442.91
Martin J. Chorley2855.65
Stuart M. Allen322229.14