WK4 – Social Media for Crowdsourcing and Human Computation

This workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to explore the challenges and opportunities of applying social media to designing novel applications of collective intelligence, with a special focus on crowdsourcing and human computation. By emphasizing practical challenges and experiences with real-world applications, the workshop will stimulate the discussion on best practices in this quickly growing field.
Organisers:

• Jasminko Novak, University of Applied Sciences Stralsund / European Institute for Participatory Media, Berlin, Germany
• Piero Fraternali, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Petros Daras, ITI CERTH, Greece
• Otto Chrons, Microtask
• Alejandro Jaimes, Yahoo Research, Social Media Engagement Group
• Mark Klein, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

Web site: http://eipcm.org/sohuman2013