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Experience the life of a Worker on Mechanical Turk

What did you like?

- There are many Hits available to work on.

- Platform is popular

What did you dislike?

- My registration application was denied and I had to use Sandbox

- The website is not responsive, and the design is outdated. It looks like the site was made for low-class workers and professionals may hesitate to join.

- Buttons are not prominent, so it's a bit hard to identify.

- Pagination and sort by drop down areas are too small and hard to read.

What do you think can be improved about the system?

- The whole layout and design should be changed.

- The Registration process should be simplified.

- Should minimize the post backs

Experience the life of a Requester on Mechanical Turk

What did you like?

- When we start a project, there is sample question types available to start, which is helpfull.

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What did you dislike?

- Overall layout and the design. It seems outdated.

- Creating a new project is a bit tricky and process is hard to understand

Also attach the CSV file generated when you download the HIT results.

Explore alternative crowd-labor markets

Compare and contrast the crowd-labor market you just explored (TaskRabbit/oDesk/GalaxyZoo) to Mechanical Turk.

Readings

MobileWorks

• What do you like about the system / what are its strengths?
• What do you think can be improved about the system?

Daemo

• What do you like about the system / what are its strengths?
• What do you think can be improved about the system?

Flash Teams

• What do you like about the system / what are its strengths?
• What do you think can be improved about the system?

Milestone Contributors

@niranga,