Friendsourcing for the Greater Good: Perceptions of Social Microvolunteering

Authors

  • Erin Brady University of Rochester
  • Meredith Morris Microsoft Research
  • Jeffrey Bigham Carnegie Mellon University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/hcomp.v2i1.13174

Keywords:

social microvolunteering, friendsourcing

Abstract

People with disabilities can be reluctant to friendsource help from their own friends for fear of appearing dependent or annoying.  Our social microvolunteering approach has volunteers post friendsourcing tasks on behalf of people with disabilities. We demonstrate this approach via a Facebook application that answers visual questions on behalf of blind users.

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Published

2014-09-05

How to Cite

Brady, E., Morris, M., & Bigham, J. (2014). Friendsourcing for the Greater Good: Perceptions of Social Microvolunteering. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, 2(1), 6-7. https://doi.org/10.1609/hcomp.v2i1.13174

Issue

Vol. 2 (2014): Second AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing

Section

Works in Progress