Difference between revisions of "Milestone 1 Submissions"

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Due date: 11:59 pm 4th March 2015 for submission, 9 am 6th March 2015 for peer-evaluation.

In this milestone we want you to:

Get experience of what it is like to be a worker and requester on current crowd-labor marketplaces
Read some research papers about crowdsourcing

Sign up as a worker for Mechanical Turk here. Then, practice doing some tasks - you should do enough tasks to earn $1.

If having difficulty signing up as a worker, you can try the worker sandbox, or other sites like CrowdFlower or Microworkers. Your peers will post some worker sandbox HITs at Milestone 1 Sandbox HITs.

Reflect on your experience as a worker on Mechanical Turk. What did you like? What did you dislike? Write it up on this wiki, as described here

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-== Milestone_1_TeamName ==
+'''Due date: 11:59 pm 4th March 2015 for submission, 9 am 6th March 2015 for peer-evaluation.'''
-[[Milestone 1 Template]]
+In this milestone we want you to:
-== Milestone_1_TeamName ==
+* Get experience of what it is like to be a worker and requester on current crowd-labor marketplaces
+* Read some research papers about crowdsourcing
-[[Milestone 1 Template]]
+== Experience the life of a Worker on Mechanical Turk ==
+Sign up as a worker for Mechanical Turk [https://www.mturk.com/ here]. Then, practice doing some tasks - you should do enough tasks to earn $1.
+If having difficulty signing up as a worker, you can try the [https://workersandbox.mturk.com worker sandbox], or other sites like [http://www.crowdflower.com/ CrowdFlower] or [https://microworkers.com/ Microworkers]. Your peers will post some worker sandbox HITs at [[Milestone 1 Sandbox HITs]].
+=== Deliverable ===
+Reflect on your experience as a worker on Mechanical Turk. What did you like? What did you dislike? Write it up on this wiki, as described [[#Submitting | here]]