Friendsourcing for the Greater Good: Perceptions of Social Microvolunteering

2014-11-05

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, 2

Volume

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

Works in Progress

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.

10.1609/hcomp.v2i1.13174