Schedule

Program

Monday, October 23, 2017 at Hilton Quebec

9am-5pm Doctoral Consortium (location: Beaumont, 2nd floor)

Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at Hilton Quebec

9am-5pm GroupSight Workshop (location: Beauport, 2nd floor)

CrowdCamp (location: Beaumont, 2nd floor)
5:30pm-7pm HCOMP 2017 Welcome event (location: Hilton Executive Club, 23rd floor)

Wednesday, October 25, 2017 at Hilton Quebec

Joint day with the ACM UIST conference!

8:45am-9am Opening remarks
9am-10am Keynote: Niki Kittur
10am-10:40am Break
10:40am-12pm

Session 1: Citizen Science and Sensing
A Trust-Based Coordination System for Participatory Sensing Applications Alexandros Zenonos, Sebastian Stein and Nick R. Jennings
Lessons from an Online Massive Genomics Computer Game Akash Singh, Faizy Ahsan, Mathieu Blanchette and Jerome Waldispuhl
Crowdsourcing Paper Screening in Systematic Literature Reviews Evgeny Krivosheev, Fabio Casati, Valentina Caforio, and Boualem Benatallah
A Lightweight and Real-Time Worldwide Earthquake Detection and Monitoring System Based on Citizen Sensors Jazmine Maldonado, Jheser Guzman, and Barbara Poblete
12pm-1:30pm Lunch on your own
1:30pm-2:50pm

Session 2: Crowds Supporting Complex Thinking
Supporting Image Geolocation with Diagramming and Crowdsourcing Rachel Kohler, John Purviance and Kurt Luther
Drafty: Enlisting Users to be Editors who Maintain Structured Data Shaun Wallace, Lucy Van Kleunen, Marianne Aubin-Le Quere, Abraham Peterkin, Yirui Huang and Jeff Huang
Toward Scalable Social Alt Text: Conversational Crowdsourcing as a Tool for Refining Vision-to-Language Technology for the Blind Elliot Salisbury, Ece Kamar and Meredith Ringel Morris
Supporting ESL Writing by Prompting Crowdsourced Structural Feedback Yi-Ching Huang, Jiunn-Chia Huang, Hao-Chuan Wang and Jane Yung-jen Hsu
2:50pm-3:30pm Break
3:30pm-4:50pm

Session 3: Task Design and Incentive Mechanisms
Deja Vu: Characterizing Worker Reliability Using Task Consistency Alex C. Williams, Joslin Goh, Charlie G. Willis, Aaron M. Ellison, James H. Brusuelas, Charles C. Davis and Edith Law
"But you Promised": Methods to Improve Crowd Engagement In Non-Ground Truth Tasks Avshalom Elmalech and Barbara J. Grosz
Leveraging Side Information to Improve Label Quality Control in Crowdsourcing Yuan Jin, Mark Carman, Dongwoo Kim and Lexing Xie
Confusing the Crowd: Task Instruction Quality on Amazon Mechanical Turk Meng-Han Wu and Alexander J. Quinn
4:50pm-5:50pm Industry panel discussion
5:50pm-7pm Free time
7pm-10pm HCOMP 2017 dinner reception at Cercle de la Garnison (The Garrison Club)
for HCOMP 2017 Registrants Only

Thursday, October 26, 2017 at Quebec City Convention Center (Room 306A, 3rd Level)

9am-10am Keynote: Emma Brunskill
10am-10:30am Poster madness
10:30am-11:10am Posters and demos (location: Room 306B, 3rd Level)
11:10am-12:30pm

Session 4: Algorithms for Optimal Crowds
Revenue-Maximizing Stable Pricing in Online Labor Markets Chaolun Xia and Shan Muthukrishnan
Let's Agree to Disagree: Fixing Agreement Measures for Crowdsourcing Alessandro Checco, Kevin Roitero, Eddy Maddalena, Stefano Mizzaro and Gianluca Demartini
Cioppino: Multi-Tenant Crowd Management Daniel Haas and Michael J. Franklin
Octopus: A Framework for Cost-Quality-Time Optimization in Crowdsourcing Karan Goel, Shreya Rajpal and Mausam
12:30pm-2pm Lunch on your own
2pm-3:20pm

Session 5: Crowd Systems
CrowdMask: Using Crowds to Preserve Privacy in Crowd-Powered Systems via Progressive Filtering Harmanpreet Kaur, Mitchell Gordon, Yiwei Yang, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Jaime Teevan, Ece Kamar and Walter S. Lasecki
Crowdsourcing a Parallel Corpus for Conceptual Analysis of Natural Language Jamie C. Macbeth and Sandra Grandic
Dynamic Filter: Adaptive Query Processing with the Crowd Doren Lan, Katherine Reed, Austin Shin and Beth Trushkowsky
Evaluating Visual Conversational Agents via Cooperative Human-AI Games Prithvijit Chattopadhyay, Deshraj Yadav, Viraj Prabhu, Arjun Chandrasekaran, Abhishek Das, Stefan Lee, Dhruv Batra and Devi Parikh
3:20pm-4:00pm Posters and demos (location: Room 306B, 3rd Level)
4pm-5:20pm

Session 6: Crowds in Context
Crowd-O-Meter: Predicting if a Person is Vulnerable to Believe Political Claims Mehrnoosh Sameki, Tianyi Zhang, Linli Ding, Margrit Betke and Danna Gurari
A 10-Month-Long Deployment Study of On-Demand Recruiting for Low-Latency Crowdsourcing Ting-Hao (Kenneth) Huang and Jeffrey P. Bigham
Effective Prize Structure for Simple Crowdsourcing Contests with Participation Costs David Sarne and Michael Lepioshkin
Gender Differences in Equity Crowdfunding Emoke-Agnes Horvat and Theodore Papamarkou
5:20pm-5:50pm Town hall meeting