Mobile crowdsourcing in the wild
Pei-Yu Chi, Anurag Batra, Maxwell K. Hsu · 2018
Recent research has been devoted to designing mobile applications that encourage users to complete microtasks in everyday context, known as "mobile crowdsourcing". In this case study, we present our ongoing effort of a publicly-available mobile application, Crowdsource, that has over 540,000 global users from 200 countries or regions. Over 15 million sessions have been performed since the initial launch in August 2016. To better support users' motivations and goals, we conducted a survey with our active users and validate their feedback with a set of usability studies. Our findings suggest design considerations for crowdsourcing microtasks with mobile users at the global scale.