A survey of crowdsourcing as a means of collaboration and the implications of crowdsourcing for interaction design

Abstract

Crowdsourcing has emerged as a new learning and online collaborative paradigm, in which “crowds” of people can collaborate and complete a specific task. In this paper, we provide a survey of crowdsourcing as a means of collaboration in three different contexts, namely academic, enterprise, and social. The survey also includes a short inventory of how different factors contribute to the development of crowdsourcing. Finally, we develop and outline open questions, insights, as well as a research agenda for enhancing crowdsourcing development in the perspective of HCI.