Serious games are growing rapidly as a gaming industry as well as a field of academic
research. There are many surveys in the field of digital serious games; however, most …

Objective Crowdsourcing research allows investigators to engage thousands of people to
provide either data or data analysis. However, prior work has not documented the use of …

The more competition becomes important, the more companies need to innovate in order to
survive. This requires creative, adaptable, strategic intelligence ability. We will focus here on …

Foldit is a multiplayer online game in which players collaborate and compete to create
accurate protein structure models. For specific hard problems, Foldit player solutions can in …

Gamification is the use of video-game mechanics and elements in nongame contexts to
enhance user engagement and performance. The purpose of this study is to conduct a …

While the primary bottleneck to a number of computational workflows was not so long ago
limited by processing power, the rise of machine learning technologies has resulted in an …

Designers of human computation systms often face the need to aggregate noisy information
provided by multiple people. While voting is often used for this purpose, the choice of voting …

In this work we investigate whether the innate visual recognition and learning capabilities of
untrained humans can be used in conducting reliable microscopic analysis of biomedical …

Expertise-centric citizen science games (ECCSGs) can be powerful tools for crowdsourcing
scientific knowledge production. However, to be effective these games must train their …

This book presents a unique opportunity for constructing a consistent image of collaborative
manual annotation for Natural Language Processing (NLP). NLP has witnessed two major …