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Lessons Learned from Crowdsourcing Complex Engineering Tasks
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Staffelbach M
; Sempolinski P
; Kijewski-Correa T
; Thain D
; Wei D
; Kareem A
; Madey G
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(9
): e0134978
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CROWDSOURCING: Crowdsourcing is the practice of obtaining needed ideas, services,
or content by requesting contributions from a large group of people. Amazon
Mechanical Turk is a web marketplace for crowdsourcing microtasks, such as
answering surveys and image tagging. We explored the limits of crowdsourcing by
using Mechanical Turk for a more complicated task: analysis and creation of wind
simulations. HARNESSING CROWDWORKERS FOR ENGINEERING: Our investigation examined
the feasibility of using crowdsourcing for complex, highly technical tasks. This
was done to determine if the benefits of crowdsourcing could be harnessed to
accurately and effectively contribute to solving complex real world engineering
problems. Of course, untrained crowds cannot be used as a mere substitute for
trained expertise. Rather, we sought to understand how crowd workers can be used
as a large pool of labor for a preliminary analysis of complex data. VIRTUAL WIND
TUNNEL: We compared the skill of the anonymous crowd workers from Amazon
Mechanical Turk with that of civil engineering graduate students, making a first
pass at analyzing wind simulation data. For the first phase, we posted analysis
questions to Amazon crowd workers and to two groups of civil engineering graduate
students. A second phase of our experiment instructed crowd workers and students
to create simulations on our Virtual Wind Tunnel website to solve a more complex
task. CONCLUSIONS: With a sufficiently comprehensive tutorial and compensation
similar to typical crowd-sourcing wages, we were able to enlist crowd workers to
effectively complete longer, more complex tasks with competence comparable to
that of graduate students with more comprehensive, expert-level knowledge.
Furthermore, more complex tasks require increased communication with the workers.
As tasks become more complex, the employment relationship begins to become more
akin to outsourcing than crowdsourcing. Through this investigation, we were able
to stretch and explore the limits of crowdsourcing as a tool for solving complex
problems.