WinterMilestone 1 nalinc

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Experience the life of a Worker on Mechanical Turk

I tried hands on Amazon Mechanical Turk Developer environment workersandbox[2] because of its __ and restriction-free access across nations. It is a simulated environment that allows users to test their applications and perform HITs[Human Intelligence Tasks]. Being a testing platform, it does not allow transfer of funds outside the sandbox. I completed a total of 21 tasks and managed to earn 2.10 USD* by 2:00 PM IST 14th January, 2015.

Below is a screenshot of my dashboard from worker account at MTurk.

*Current total is: 27 tasks.

I kept doing few more tasks posted by my peers at Milestone 1 Sandbox HITs[3]

Following are few of the tasks I attempted during the process:

• Find the Hotel Name Address for Given URL
• Find the correct(valid) url
• Find the website address for restaurant
• Tagging of an Image

What did you like? --todo--

What did you dislike? --todo--

Experience the life of a Requester on Mechanical Turk

Again, like the workersandbox, I tried Amazon Mechanical Turk's developer environment requestersandbox[requestersandbox.mturk.com] to get into the shoes of a requester. I also did minor investigations in microworkers[4] and performed task authoring in Daemo. Speaking of MTurk sandbox, I published the following tasks

1) Provide descriptions of popular opensource projects[5]

• Qualification required: None
• Number of Assignments per HIT: 15
• Reward per Assignment: $0.10
• Input csv file: File:Softwares.csv

2) Judge the sentiment expressed toward: random user tweets[6]

• Qualification required: Worker should be master
• Number of Assignments per HIT: 5
• Reward per Assignment: $0.15
• Input csv file: File:Sentiment.csv

What did you like? --todo

What did you dislike? --todo

CSV file generated when you download the HIT results: File:Batch 119356 batch results.csv

Explore alternative crowd-labor markets

Because of location restrictions, my account registration was rejected at most of the crowd platforms including MTurk, Uplink. However, I did explore Daemo task authoring locally. Comparison of Daemo with other platforms is described later.

Readings

MobileWorks

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

Daemo

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

Flash Teams

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

Milestone Contributors

Author: @nalinc