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2015 Conference Proceedings
November 8: Doctoral Consortium
November 9: Workshop/Crowdcamp/HCOMP-15
Opening Reception
November 10-11:
HCOMP-15 Technical Program
November 10: HCOMP-15
Banquet
Title: Crowdwork’s Invisible Engine: Valuing the Organic Collaboration
in Crowdsourcing Labor Markets
This presentation shares key findings from joint research with
Siddharth Suri that examines workers’ experiences of what we call
crowdwork—paid, short contract tasks, distributed to a large pool of
online workers (aka the ‘crowd’) through crowdsourcing platforms, that
might otherwise go to a full time employee. Combining 21 months of
ethnographic fieldwork and interviewing with computational analysis of
backend metadata, we compare the cases of workers in India and the
United States, to understand the cultural meaning, political
implications, and ethical demands of crowdwork. This talk lays out the
evidence we have that, despite the designs of crowdsourcing to
maximize efficiencies through atomized, autonomous workflows, the most
active crowdworkers are not the independent workers they are assumed
to be. Instead, workers collaborate extensively to address both
technical and social needs generated by the platforms they work on.
Our work suggests that crowdsourcing’s successes are driven as much by
the invisible labor of organic collaboration—connections organized by
workers—as the matching and routing capacities of an API. While our
study includes examples of what we call “engineered
collaboration,”—interaction organized by the platform—the persistence
of organic collaboration even in these systems suggests that there’s
an untapped reservoir of productivity and better work conditions to be
found in models of facilitated organic collaboration. We argue that
before we can improve the technical capacities of crowdsourcing
systems, we need methodologies that help us get a clearer sense of the
people doing this work, what it means to them, and how it fits into
their daily lives. In short, we should recognize that crowdsourcing
systems are not, simply, technologies. In the case of crowdwork,
crowdsourcing platforms are sites of employment with complicated
social dynamics that, ultimately, hold value beyond a single moment of
task completion.
Mary L. Gray is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research. She maintains an appointment as Associate Professor in the Media School, with adjunct appointments in American Studies, Anthropology, and Gender Studies, at Indiana University. She studied Anthropology before receiving her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of California, San Diego in 2004. Her research looks at how media access and everyday uses of technologies transform people's lives. Her last book, Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America, looked at how young people in the rural United States use media to negotiate their sexual and gender identities, local belonging, and connections to broader, imagined communities. Mary's current book project, co-authored with computer scientist Siddharth Suri, combines ethnography, interviews, survey data and large scale data analysis of four crowdsourcing platforms operating in the United States and India to examine workers’ experiences of digital labor and the future of employment in platform economies.
Title: Human Cooperation
David Rand is an assistant professor of psychology, economics, and management at Yale University, and the director of Yale University’s Human Cooperation Laboratory. His research combines a range of theoretical and experimental methods in an effort to explain the high levels of cooperation that typify human societies, and to uncover ways to promote cooperation in situations where it is lacking. He received his B.A. in computational biology from Cornell University in 2004 and his Ph.D. in systems biology from Harvard University in 2009, and was a post-doctoral research in Harvard University’s psychology department from 2009 to 2013.
To register, please use the HCOMP-15 online registration form at https://www.regonline.com/hcomp15.
November 8: Doctoral Consortium
November 9:
Workshop/CrowdCamp/HCOMP-15 Opening Reception
November
10-11: HCOMP-15 Technical Program
November 10: HCOMP-15
Banquet
PREREGISTRATION IS ENCOURAGED. The HCOMP-15 technical conference registration fee includes admission to all technical paper and poster sessions, invited talks, the opening reception, the banquet, and an electronic copy of the HCOMP-15 Conference Proceedings. Technical registrants also receive a discount on attendance at the workshop program on Sunday, November 8.
Early (by Sept 11) | Late (by Oct 9) | Onsite (after Oct 9) | |
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Member | 495 | 595 | 695 |
Student Member | 300 | 350 | 400 |
Nonmember | 650 | 750 | 850 |
Student Nonmember | 395 | 445 | 495 |
Early (by Sept 11) | Late (by Oct 9) | Onsite (after Oct 9) | |
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Regular | 640 | 740 | 840 |
Student | 375 | 425 | 475 |
The HCOMP-15 Workshop fee includes admittance to the workshop on Monday, November 9, and any accompanying electronic material. T and any accompanying electronic materials. Technical registrants are eligible for a discounted rate.
(For a workshop description, please see complete information at http://www.humancomputation.com/2015/).
Workshop W1: Crowdsourcing Breakthroughs for Language Technology Applications
Regular: 105
Student: 70
The Workshop Only fee does NOT include admittance to the HCOMP-15 technical sessions, reception, or banquet. Registration is valid only for the day of the workshop.
Regular: 155
Student: 90
Admittance to the HCOMP-15 Opening Reception (November 9) is included in the HCOMP-15 technical conference registration. Guests are welcome for the following fee:
Opening Reception Guest: $70.00
Banquet Admittance to the HCOMP-15 Banquet (November 10) is included in the HCOMP-15 technical conference registration. Guests are welcome for the following fee:
Banquet Guest: $60.00
Preregistrants may order a hard copy of the HCOMP-15 proceedings, which will be mailed after the conference. The preconference discounted price will be determined in fall 2015. Shipping and handling will be added. Individuals who select this option will be contacted regarding the final cost after the conference.
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The deadline for refund requests is October 16, 2015. All refund requests must be made in writing to AAAI at hcomp15@aaai.org. A $100.00 processing fee will be assessed for all refunds.
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Dr. Liz Gerber
McCormick School of
Engineering & School of Communication, Northwestern University.
Kate Starbird, University of Washington
Lydia Chilton, University of Washington
Steven Dow, Carnegie Mellon University
Walter Lasecki, University of Michigan
Brent Hecht, University of Minnesota
Laura Dabbish, Carnegie Mellon University
Yongsung Kim, Northwestern University
Julie Hui, Northwestern University
Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano
Ceren Budak, Microsoft Research
Laura Carletti, University of Nottingham
Ciro Cattuto, Institute for Scientific Interchange (ISI) Foundation
Elisa Celis, Xerox Research Centre India
Lydia Chilton, University of Washington
Steven Dow, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Arpita Ghosh, Cornell University
Yotam Gingold, George Mason University
Bjoern Hartmann, University of California, Berkeley
Catherine Hicks, UC San Diego
Jane Hsu, National Taiwan University
Adam Kalai, Microsoft Research New England
Ece Kamar, Microsoft Research
Markus Krause, Leibniz University Hannover
Anand Kulkarni, LeadGenius
Walter Lasecki, University of Michigan
Edith Law, University of Waterloo
Matt Lease, University of Texas, Austin
Chris Lintott, Oxford
Adam Marcus, Unlimited Labs
Winter Mason, Facebook
Mausam, Indian Institue of Technology, Delhi
Meredith Morris, Microsoft
Jeff Nichols, Google
Anne Marie Piper, Northwestern University
Alex Rogers, University of Southampton
Kate Starbird, University of Washington
Siddharth Suri, Microsoft Research
Beth Trushkowsky, Harvey Mudd College
Jennifer Vaughan, Microsoft Research
Jing Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Daniel Weld, University of Washington
Anbang Xu, IBM Almaden
Brian Bailey, University of Illinois
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Two sources of income pay for HCOMP conference expenses: registration fees paid by the attendees and sponsorships from corporations, universities, and other institutions. Sponsors’ funds allow HCOMP conferences to limit increasing registration, especially for students and the assistance provided by our sponsors is greatly appreciated.
HCOMP 2015 will provide benefits to sponsors in exchange for their financial support. To build awareness of sponsorship, we will publically acknowledge all sponsors in the opening and closing plenary sessions, on the conference website, in the proceedings, and final program. We will list the sponsors in order of contribution. We will also acknowledge Champion and Benefactors sponsors for their contribution to well attended social events including receptions, the conference banquet/party, coffee breaks, and student dinners.
Sponsors are given the opportunity to provide information (e.g., brochures) directly to HCOMP 2015 attendees. Champion, Benefactor, and Contributor sponsors are invited to present demonstrations of their relevant technology. HCOMP 2015 will also accommodate sponsors interested in recruiting conference attendees. Sponsors may also receive a complimentary HCOMP 2015 registration.
HCOMP 2015 offers four levels of sponsorship: Champion, Benefactor, Contributor, and Friend.