DocumentCode
1313706
Title
Intelligence in Human Computation Games
Author
Cao, Yan
Author_Institution
A second-year Ph.D. student in information sciences and technology at The Pennsylvania State University after having graduated with a master's degree in physics.
Volume
30
Issue
5
fYear
2011
Firstpage
33
Lastpage
34
Abstract
Human computation is a field that studies the employment of humans\´ computing ability to solve complex problems that computers cannot easily solve in time. Games present one plat form for human computation in an entertaining manner. Pioneered by Luis Von Ahn and his colleagues, many games "with a purpose (GWAP) systems have been developed in recent years, such as ESP, GWAP for the Semantic Web, and CityExplorer. Computational tasks, including image tagging, building the Semantic Web, and collecting geo spatial data for cities, are "crowd sourced" to the players and solved by human power.
Keywords
computer games; social aspects of automation; CityExplorer; ESP; GWAP; computing ability; games with a purpose systems; geospatial data; human computation games; image tagging; semantic Web; Computational complexity; Games; Human factors;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Potentials, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0278-6648
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MPOT.2011.941487
Filename
6009119
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