WinterMilestone 1 Template

Template for your submission for Winter Milestone 1. Do not edit this directly - instead, make a new page at WinterMilestone 1 YourTeam Name or whatever your team name is, and copy this template over. You can view the source of this page by clicking the Edit button at the top-right of this page, or by clicking here.

Experience the life of a Worker on Mechanical Turk

Reflect on your experience as a worker on Mechanical Turk. What did you like? What did you dislike? If you're from outside the USA and unable to access MTurk, try try the worker sandbox, or other sites like CrowdFlower or Microworkers or Clickworker.

Experience the life of a Requester on Mechanical Turk

Reflect on your experience as a requester on Mechanical Turk. What did you like? What did you dislike? Also attach the CSV file generated when you download the HIT results. If you're from outside the USA and unable to access MTurk, you can try the MTurk requester sandbox, or CrowdFlower or Microworkers or Clickworker

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

Slack usernames of all who helped create this wiki page submission: @kessyena, @reneelin, @mahsa, @marim_g