TY - GEN
T1 - Turk-life in India
AU - Gupta, Neha
AU - Martin, David
AU - Hanrahan, Benjamin V.
AU - O'Neill, Jacki
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2014 ACM.
PY - 2014/11/9
Y1 - 2014/11/9
N2 - Previous studies on Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT), the most well-known marketplace for microtasks, show that the largest population of workers on AMT is U.S. based, while the second largest is based in India. In this paper, we present insights from an ethnographic study conducted in India to introduce some of these workers or 'Turkers' - who they are, how they work and what turking means to them. We examine the work they do to maintain their reputations and their work-life balance. In doing this, we illustrate how AMT's design practically impacts on turk-work. Understanding the 'lived work' of crowdwork is a valuable first step for technology design.
AB - Previous studies on Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT), the most well-known marketplace for microtasks, show that the largest population of workers on AMT is U.S. based, while the second largest is based in India. In this paper, we present insights from an ethnographic study conducted in India to introduce some of these workers or 'Turkers' - who they are, how they work and what turking means to them. We examine the work they do to maintain their reputations and their work-life balance. In doing this, we illustrate how AMT's design practically impacts on turk-work. Understanding the 'lived work' of crowdwork is a valuable first step for technology design.
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U2 - 10.1145/2660398.2660403
DO - 10.1145/2660398.2660403
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84911942914
T3 - Proceedings of the International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work
SP - 1
EP - 11
BT - GROUP 2014 - Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 18th ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work, GROUP 2014
Y2 - 9 November 2014 through 12 November 2014
ER -