Vaish, Rajan, (University of California, Santa Cruz) “Mobilizing the Citizen Crowd”,(2015), Advisor: James Davis
Crowdsourcing is a powerful approach to solve some of the biggest problems today - social and scientific. To harness the potential of crowdsourcing, researchers have often relied and successfully used crowd marketplaces such as Amazon Mechanical Turk. However, in spite of a large worker base and past successes, these platforms come with their own limitations.