Kurator: Using the crowd to help families with personal curation tasks

David Merritt; Jasmine Jones; Mark S. Ackerman; Walter S. Lasecki

doi:10.1145/2998181.2998358

Kurator: Using the crowd to help families with personal curation tasks

David Merritt
, Jasmine Jones
, Mark S. Ackerman
, Walter S. Lasecki

Computer Science and Engineering

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Abstract

People capture photos, audio recordings, video, and more on a daily basis, but organizing all these digital artifacts quickly becomes a daunting task. Automated solutions struggle to help us manage this data because they cannot understand its meaning. In this paper, we introduce Kurator, a hybrid intelligence system leveraging mixed-expertise crowds to help families curate their personal digital content. Kurator produces a refined set of content via a combination of automated systems able to scale to large data sets and human crowds able to understand the data. Our results with 5 families show that Kurator can reduce the amount of effort needed to find meaningful memories within a large collection. This work also suggests that crowdsourcing can be used effectively even in domains where personal preference is key to accurately solving the task.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CSCW 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1835-1849
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450343350
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998358
State	Published - Feb 25 2017
Event	2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2017 - Portland, United States Duration: Feb 25 2017 → Mar 1 2017

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Name	Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
Volume	0

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Other	2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2017
Country/Territory	United States
City	Portland
Period	2/25/17 → 3/1/17

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 ACM.

Keywords

Crowdsourcing
Digital audio
Digital curation
Hybrid intelligence
Mixed-expertise
Personal curation

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Merritt, D., Jones, J., Ackerman, M. S., & Lasecki, W. S. (2017). Kurator: Using the crowd to help families with personal curation tasks. In CSCW 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 1835-1849). (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW; Vol. 0). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998358

Kurator: Using the crowd to help families with personal curation tasks. / Merritt, David; Jones, Jasmine; Ackerman, Mark S. et al.
CSCW 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. p. 1835-1849 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW; Vol. 0).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Merritt, D, Jones, J, Ackerman, MS & Lasecki, WS 2017, Kurator: Using the crowd to help families with personal curation tasks. in CSCW 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW, vol. 0, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 1835-1849, 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2017, Portland, United States, 2/25/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998358

Merritt D, Jones J, Ackerman MS, Lasecki WS. Kurator: Using the crowd to help families with personal curation tasks. In CSCW 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery. 2017. p. 1835-1849. (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW). doi: 10.1145/2998181.2998358

Merritt, David ; Jones, Jasmine ; Ackerman, Mark S. et al. / Kurator : Using the crowd to help families with personal curation tasks. CSCW 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. pp. 1835-1849 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW).

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