Team dating: A self-organized team formation strategy for collaborative crowdsourcing

Ioanna Lykourentzou, Robert E. Kraut, Shannon Wang, Steven P. Dow

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Abstract

Online crowds have the potential to do more complex work in teams, rather than as individuals. However, at such a large scale, team formation can be difficult to coordinate. (How) can we rely on the crowd itself to organize into effective teams? Our research explores a strategy for "team dating", a self-organized crowd team formation approach where workers try out and rate different candidate partners. In two online experiments, we find that team dating affects the way that people select partners and how they evaluate them. We use these results to draw useful conclusions for the future of team dating and its implications for collaborative crowdsourcing.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCHI EA 2016
Subtitle of host publication#chi4good - Extended Abstracts, 34th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages1243-1249
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781450340823
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 May 2016
Event34th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2016 - San Jose, United States
Duration: 7 May 201612 May 2016

Publication series

NameConference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Volume07-12-May-2016

Conference

Conference34th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Jose
Period7/05/1612/05/16

Keywords

  • Collaborative crowdsourcing
  • Self-organization
  • Team building

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