This feature article by Jakob Rogstadius appeared in the Huffington Post. Effective intervention in humanitarian disasters depends largely on gaining a comprehensive understanding of the situation as a whole so that first responders and aid organizations know where scarce resources are needed most. At the same time, disasters are highly complex, with multiple events occurring simultaneously and information that is difficult…
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At Ubicomp 2013 we presented one of the first papers to use public displays as a crowdsourcing platform. The paper was featured in New Scientist. This study was the first attempt to investigate altruistic use of interactive public displays in natural usage settings as a crowdsourcing mechanism. We tested a non-paid crowdsourcing service on public displays with eight different motivation settings…
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This year we presented two full papers at Ubicomp 2013. The two papers are available in our publications. Crowdsourcing on the Spot: Altruistic Use of Public Displays, Feasibility, Performance, and Behaviours. This work was mentioned in New Scientist and looks at using public displays as a crowdsourcing platform. Revisiting Human-Battery Interaction with an Interactive Battery Interface. This paper presents an application that helps to dramatically…
Continue ReadingVassilis Kostakos participated in the Dagstuhl seminar on Crowdsourcing. The seminar lasted 3 days and was attended by more than 20 scientists internationally. It was entitled Crowdsourcing: From Theory to Practice and Long-Term Perspectives, and was organised by Claudio Bartolini (HP Labs – Palo Alto, US) Tobias Hoßfeld (Universität Würzburg, DE) Phuoc Tran-Gia (Universität Würzburg, DE) Maja Vukovic (IBM TJ Watson Research Center – Yorktown Heights, US)…
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