The Future of Crowd Work. Aniket Kittur Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science Jeffrey V. Nickerson Stevens Institute of Technology - Stevens Institute of Technology - School of Business Michael S. Stanford University Elizabeth M. Northwestern University Aaron Shaw Harvard University - Berkman Center for Internet & Society; University of California, Berkeley - Department of Sociology John Zimmerman Carnegie Mellon University Matthew Lease University of Texas at Austin John J. New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management SciencesDecember 18, 2012 16th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Coooperative Work (CSCW 2013), Forthcoming Abstract: Paid crowd work offers remarkable opportunities for improving productivity, social mobility, and the global economy by engaging a geographically distributed workforce to complete complex tasks on demand and at scale.
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