Turk bench: Rendering the market for turkers

Benjamin V. Hanrahan; Jutta K.willamowski; Saiganesh Swaminathan; David B. Martin

doi:10.1145/2702123.2702279

Turk bench: Rendering the market for turkers

Benjamin V. Hanrahan, Jutta K.willamowski, Saiganesh Swaminathan, David B. Martin

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Abstract

Crowdsourcing is a relatively new model of labor where both the workers and work providers are experiencing its growing pains. A dominant platform that implements this model of labor is Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT). While AMT has evolved over the years, the changes have focused mainly on work providers and have not addressed the problems workers face (e.g. dealing with market volatility and unpaid time searching for work). In this paper we present TurkBench, a tool meant to provide workers with personalized market visualization and session management. We discuss the design philosophy of the tool, briefly discuss four Turkers' reaction to a demo, and outline future work.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Crossings
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1613-1616
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450331456
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702279
State	Published - Apr 18 2015
Event	33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2015 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: Apr 18 2015 → Apr 23 2015

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Volume	2015-April

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Other	33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2015
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	4/18/15 → 4/23/15

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Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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Hanrahan, B. V., K.willamowski, J., Swaminathan, S., & Martin, D. B. (2015). Turk bench: Rendering the market for turkers. In CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Crossings (pp. 1613-1616). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2015-April). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702279

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Turk bench: Rendering the market for turkers. / Hanrahan, Benjamin V.; K.willamowski, Jutta; Swaminathan, Saiganesh et al.
CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Crossings. Association for Computing Machinery, 2015. p. 1613-1616 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2015-April).

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