Hello all,
You are invited to participate in a research study that intends to understand the trend of voluntary group-formation phenomenon on Amazon Mechanical Turk. This research is conducted by Dr. Joseph Konstan, Dr. Haiyi Zhu and their students Xinyi Wang, Yangyun Li and Yu Cui at College of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota.
Recently, we found that some Turkers have self organized into various groups outside Amazon Mechanical Turk to exchange MTurk related information. Understanding the motivations behind this phenomenon and what impact it could have is important, because it is of interest to all parties involved: Turkers as individual users, Amazon as a platform, and requesters who conduct research on MTurk. Moreover, it might advance the knowledge on motivation, online behavior, incentive strategies, group formation, and crowdsourcing. It might also produce important design implications for other micro-laboring instances.
You are identified as a potential participant because you are a registered user on Amazon Mechanical Turk. The HIT task includes a survey that would take about 5 minutes to finish. It contains questions regarding your general usage of MTurk, your awareness of the Turker groups, a short personality test, and some demographic information, By the end of the survey, you will be invited to participate in a brief interview regarding your experience using MTurk via Skype, Google Hangout or phone call. This interview is very important for us and your contribution will be very appreciated.
There are 2 links below. Please click the first link to go to to Qualtrics and fill out the survey. At the end of the survey, you will received a code. After that, click the second link to the HIT on Amazon Mechanical Turk, and paste the code into the box to receive credit for taking our survey.
Make sure to leave this window open as you complete the survey. When you are finished, you will return to this page to paste the code into the box.
Here is the link to Qualtrics: https://umn.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0qsQGsZDZOEg3B3
Here is the HIT link on AMT:
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=3NCF7G1XJI1TIUH7PBS5DZ4KF92NA0
You are invited to participate in a research study that intends to understand the trend of voluntary group-formation phenomenon on Amazon Mechanical Turk. This research is conducted by Dr. Joseph Konstan, Dr. Haiyi Zhu and their students Xinyi Wang, Yangyun Li and Yu Cui at College of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota.
Recently, we found that some Turkers have self organized into various groups outside Amazon Mechanical Turk to exchange MTurk related information. Understanding the motivations behind this phenomenon and what impact it could have is important, because it is of interest to all parties involved: Turkers as individual users, Amazon as a platform, and requesters who conduct research on MTurk. Moreover, it might advance the knowledge on motivation, online behavior, incentive strategies, group formation, and crowdsourcing. It might also produce important design implications for other micro-laboring instances.
You are identified as a potential participant because you are a registered user on Amazon Mechanical Turk. The HIT task includes a survey that would take about 5 minutes to finish. It contains questions regarding your general usage of MTurk, your awareness of the Turker groups, a short personality test, and some demographic information, By the end of the survey, you will be invited to participate in a brief interview regarding your experience using MTurk via Skype, Google Hangout or phone call. This interview is very important for us and your contribution will be very appreciated.
There are 2 links below. Please click the first link to go to to Qualtrics and fill out the survey. At the end of the survey, you will received a code. After that, click the second link to the HIT on Amazon Mechanical Turk, and paste the code into the box to receive credit for taking our survey.
Make sure to leave this window open as you complete the survey. When you are finished, you will return to this page to paste the code into the box.
Here is the link to Qualtrics: https://umn.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0qsQGsZDZOEg3B3
Here is the HIT link on AMT:
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=3NCF7G1XJI1TIUH7PBS5DZ4KF92NA0