Summer Milestone 2
This is an overview of the tasks we wish to accomplish this week. You can do whichever ones you are interested in / have time for. They can be found as boards on Trello.
Focus Areas for this week are Micro and macro (how can we make our platform scale the whole spectrum of crowd work, from mTurk-like microtasks to oDesk-like macrotasks?) and open governance (how can our platform adapt itself to respond to the needs of users over time?)
Contents
Micro and macro tasks
We want to have a clear vision of how our platform can span the whole spectrum of crowd work tasks between mTurk-like micro tasks (ex: image/page classification), through oDesk-like macro tasks (ex: here's my 10 page essay, please proofread and edit it) and everything between.
Interface and Flow for Creating a Task
https://trello.com/c/LJrLPfiJ/3-task-creation-flow
Tracking tasks
https://trello.com/c/lT9ZCUXd/2-tracking-tasks
Monitoring progress, reviewing results, paying
Open governance
https://trello.com/c/QXEGUTVV/4-choose-a-side
We want to be able to make a reccomendation - will we use direct democracy or representative voting?
We need to get feedback on the two storyboards:
Please synthesize feedback votes and make a recommendation.
Research Engineering
Five issues will go here
If interested in working other issues, please check out the Github issues page
Make submissions and comment/vote on others'
Create a wiki page
For each of the submissions, please create a wiki page for your team's submission at http://crowdresearch.stanford.edu/w/index.php?title=Summer_Milestone_2_YourTeamName&action=edit (substituting in YourTeamName with the team name). Copy over the template at Summer Milestone 2 Template .
Submission Categories
Submit at http://crowdresearch.meteor.com/ in the category according to which of the 4 foundational ideas you are prototyping. Submit by Wednesday at 11:59pm (pacific time).
Foundation 1: Macro and Micro at http://crowdresearch.meteor.com/category/milestone-10-foundation-1
Foundation 2: Input/output transducers at http://crowdresearch.meteor.com/category/milestone-10-foundation-2
Foundation 3: External quality ratings at http://crowdresearch.meteor.com/category/milestone-10-foundation-3
Foundation 4: Open Governance at http://crowdresearch.meteor.com/category/milestone-10-foundation-4
Old Notes
Macro/micro - Sketch out the interface and flow for creating a task. Needs to cover: payment, who is qualified, task interface (HTML editor?). Submit a sketch/storyboard with description. You can use paper, Illustrator, Balsamiq. Put it on a wiki page. Post it to Telescope.
example. Page classification
example. Copyedit my essay
- Brainstorm how we can prevent tasks from going off the rails for micro and macro (e.g., 10hrs of work and then rejected). Idea: milestones. 5%, or explicit. Or come up with your own. Sketch/storyboard with description. Paper/illustrator/balsamiq. Put on a wiki page. Post to telescope.
- Brainstorm how to monitor progress, review results and pay. Wiki—>telescope.
Open governance
Make a recommendation — will we be using direct democracy or representative voting?
. Get feedback on the two storyboards
. Write up a couple paragraphs with the feedback votes, and your recommendation and reasoning
ResearchEng Make the five issues
