Examples of using Human computation in English and their translations into German
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Human computation section 5.2.
Here's how Luis von Ahn(2005) described human computation when he first coined the term in his dissertation.
Human computation, open call, and distributed data collection Figure 5.1.
Now I can also highlight twoimportant differences between open call projects and human computation projects.
Human computation, open call, and distributed data collection Figure 5.1.
This comparison shows that, as with Galaxy Zoo, human computation projects can produce high quality results.
What these"games with a purpose" have in commonis that they try to make the tasks involved in human computation enjoyable.
The prototypical example of a human computation project is Galaxy Zoo, which I will describe in detail below.
Given this background, we can now see how Galaxy Zoo follows the split-apply-combine recipe,the same recipe that is used for most human computation projects.
Finally, the examples in this section show that human computation can have a democratizing impact on science.
Two clever human computation projects that I did not have space to discuss are the ESP Game(Ahn and Dabbish 2004) and reCAPTCHA Ahn et al.
Life in the Cātummahārājikā world lasts, according to human computation, ninety thousand years DA.ii.472, 647, but see Kvu.207.
A classic example of a human computation project is Galaxy Zoo, where a hundred thousand volunteers helped astronomers classify a million galaxies.
To make this a bit more concrete,let's return to Galaxy Zoo, the human computation astronomy project discussed earlier in this chapter.
Human computation projects combine the work of many non-experts to solve easy-task-big-scale problems that are not easily solved by computers.
Kenneth Benoit and colleagues(2015) decided to take the manifesto coding taskthat had previously been performed by experts and turn it into a human computation project.
In addition to creating human computation and open calls, researchers can also create a distributed data collection project.
Coding political manifestos, something typically done by experts,can be performed by a human computation project resulting in greater reproducibility and flexibility.
In human computation projects, such as Galaxy Zoo, where researchers have explicit control of the tasks, the focus of attention is easiest to maintain.
Von Ahn's Ph.D. thesis, completed in 2005,was the first publication to use the term"human computation" that he had coined for methods that combinehuman brainpower with computers to solve problems that neither could solve alone.
Human computation Human computation projects take a big problem; break it into simple pieces; send them to many workers; and then aggregate the results.
Second, by some definitions of human computation(e.g., Von Ahn(2005)),FoldIt should be considered a human computation project.
In human computation and distributed data collection projects, on the other hand, the best form of quality control comes through redundancy, not a high bar for participation.
First, one way that I distinguish between human computation andopen call projects is whether the output is an average of all the solutions(human computation) or the best solution open call.
In human computation and distributed data collection projects, moreover, the best form of quality control comes through redundancy, not through a high bar for participation.
First, one way that I distinguish between human computation andopen call projects is whether the output is an average of all the solutions(human computation) or the best solution open call.
Galaxy Zoo, and other human computation projects, use a split-apply-combine strategy(Wickham 2011), and once you understand this strategy you will be able to use it to solve lots of problems.
In social research, human computation projects are most likely to be used in situations where researchers want to classify, code, or label images, video, or texts.
The term"human computation" comes out of work done by computer scientists, and understanding the context behind this research will improve your ability to pick out problems that might be amenable to it.
The term"human computation" comes out of work done by computer scientists, and understanding the context behind this research will improve your ability to pick out problems that might be suitable for it.