Courtesy of Derek J. Cashman

HCOMP 2014 Works-in-Progress and Demos

Chair and Contact

• Haoqi Zhang (Northwestern University)

Accepted Works-in-Progress

• Using Worker Quality Scores to Improve Stopping Rules (Work in Progress)
  Ittai Abraham, Omar Alonso, Vasilis Kandylas, Rajesh Patel, Steven Shelford, Alex Slivkins
• Crowdsourced Data Analytics: A Case Study of a Predictive Modeling Competition
  Yukino Baba, Nozomi Nori, Shigeru Saito, Hisashi Kashima
• Friendsourcing for the Greater Good: Perceptions of Social Microvolunteering
  Erin Brady, Meredith Ringel Morris, Jeffrey P. Bigham
• Crowd-Workers: Aggregating Information across Turkers to Help Them Find Higher Paying Work
  Chris Callison-Burch
• Poetry of the Crowd: A Human Computation Algorithm to Convert Prose into Rhyming Verse
  Quanze Chen, Chenyang Lei, Wei Xu, Ellie Pavlick, Chris Callison-Burch
• Optimal Worker Quality and Answer Estimates in Crowd-Powered Filtering and Rating
  Akash Das Sarma, Aditya G. Parameswaran, Jennifer Widom
• Behavior-Based Quality Assurance in Crowdsourcing Markets
  Michael Feldman, Abraham Bernstein
• Persistent and Pervasive Real-World Sensing Using Games
  Spencer Frazier, Mark O. Riedl
• Glance Privacy: Obfuscating Personal Identity While Coding Behavioral Video
  Mitchell Gordon, Walter S. Lasecki, Winnie Leung, Ellen Lim, Steven P. Dow, Jeffrey P. Bigham
• Tranzzl!n9o: A Human Computation Approach to English Translation of Internet Lingo
  Ming-Tung Hong, Jane Yung-Jen Hsu
• Combining Non-Expert and Expert Crowd Work to Convert Web APIs to Dialog Systems
  Ting-Hao K. Huang, Walter S. Lasecki, Alan L. Ritter, Jeffrey P. Bigham
• Crowd-Aware Space Monitoring by Crowdsourcing a Micro QA Task
  Yi-Ching Huang, Jane Yung-jen Hsu
• Product Concept Evaluation System Applying Preference Market
  Miku Imai, Hajime Mizuyama
• Quality Control for Crowdsourced Enumeration Tasks
  Shunsuke Kajimura, Yukino Baba, Hiroshi Kajino, Hisashi Kashima
• Adaptive Performance Optimization over Crowd Labor Channels
  Saraschandra Karanam, Deepthi Chander, Koustuv Dasgupta, Vaibhav Rajan, L. Elisa Celis
• Adapting Collaborative Filtering to Personalized Audio Production
  Bongjun Kim, Bryan Pardo
• A Markov Decision Process Framework for Predictable Job Completion Times on Crowdsourcing Platforms
  Chandrashekar Lakshminarayanan, Ayush Dubey, Shalabh Bhatnagar, Chithralekha Balamurugan
• Tuning the Diversity of Open-Ended Responses from the Crowd
  Walter S. Lasecki, Christopher M. Homan, Jeffrey P. Bigham
• Learning Pronunciation and Accent from the Crowd
  Frederick Liu, Jeremy Chiaming Yang, Jane Yung-jen Hsu
• Proposal and Initial Study for Animal Crowdsourcing
  Motohiro Makiguchi, Daichi Namikawa, Satoshi Nakashima, Taiga Yoshida, Masanori Yokoyama, Yuji Takano
• AI-MIX: Using Automated Planning to Steer Human Workers towards Better Crowdsourced Plans
  Lydia Manikonda, Tathagata Chakraborti, Sushovan De, Kartik Talamadupula, Subbarao Kambhampati
• Post It or Not: Viewership Based Posting of Crowdsourced Tasks
  Pallavi Manohar, Deepthi Chander, Koustuv Dasgupta, Sakyajit Bhattacharya, L. Elisa Celis
• Computing through Movement
  Rohan McAdam
• A GWAP Approach for Collecting Qualitative Product Attributes and Perceptual Mapping
  Eiji Miyashita, Tomomi Nonaka, Hajime Mizuyama
• Crowd4U: An Initiative for Constructing an Open Academic Crowdsourcing Network
  Atsuyuki Morishima, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Senjuti Basu Roy
• Tracking Human Process Using Crowd Collaboration to Enrich Data
  David Pellow, Maxine Eskenazi
• Identifying Relevant Text Fragments to Help Crowdsource Privacy Policy Annotations
  Rohan Ramanath, Florian Schaub, Shomir Wilson, Fei Liu, Norman Sadeh, Noah A. Smith
• Crowdsourcing the Extraction of Data Practices from Privacy Policies
  Florian Schaub, Travis D. Breaux, Norman Sadeh
• Contextual Procurement in Online Crowdsourcing Markets
  Adish Singla, Ian Lienert, Gábor Bartók, Andreas Krause
• Using Crowdsourcing to Generate Surrogate Training Data for Robotic Grasp Prediction
  Matthew Unrath, Zhifei Zhang, Alex Goins, Ryan Carpenter, Weng-Keen Wong, Ravi Balasubramanian

Accepted Demonstrations

• Low Effort Crowdsourcing: Leveraging Peripheral Attention for Crowd Work
  Rajan Vaish, Peter Organisciak, Kotaro Hara, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Haoqi Zhang
• Groupsourcing: Problem Solving, Social Learning and Knowledge Discovery on Social Networks
  Jon Chamberlain
• IdeaGens: A Social Ideation System for Guided Crowd Brainstorming
  Joel Chan, Steven Dang, Peter Kremer, Lucy Guo, Steven Dow
• CrowdUtility: A Recommendation System for Crowdsourcing Platforms
  Deepthi Chander, Sakyajit Bhattacharya, Elisa Celis, Koustuv Dasgupta, Saraschandra Karanam, Vaibhav Rajan, Avantika Gupta
• Crowdsourcing in Language Classes Can Help Natural Language Processing
  Barbora Hladká, Jirka Hana, Ivana Luksová
• Phylo and Open-Phylo: A Human-Computing Platform for Comparative Genomics
  Jérôme Waldispühl, Mathieu Blanchette