Exploring Self-organisation in Crowd Teams

Ioanna Lykourentzou; Antonios Liapis; Costas Papastathis; Konstantinos Papangelis; Costas Vassilakis

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-39634-3_15

Exploring Self-organisation in Crowd Teams

Ioanna Lykourentzou^*, Antonios Liapis, Costas Papastathis, Konstantinos Papangelis, Costas Vassilakis

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School of Advanced Technology

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Abstract

Online crowds have the potential to do more complex work in teams, rather than as individuals. Team formation algorithms typically maximize some notion of global utility of team output by allocating people to teams or tasks. However, decisions made by these algorithms do not consider the decisions or preferences of the people themselves. This paper explores a complementary strategy, which relies on the crowd itself to self-organize into effective teams. Our preliminary results show that users perceive the ability to choose their teammate extremely useful in a crowdsourcing setting. We also find that self-organisation makes users feel more productive, creative and responsible for their work product.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Digital Transformation for a Sustainable Society in the 21st Century - I3E 2019 IFIP WG 6.11 International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Ilias O. Pappas, Ilias O. Pappas, Patrick Mikalef, Letizia Jaccheri, John Krogstie, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Matti Mäntymäki
Publisher	Springer
Pages	164-175
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9783030396336
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39634-3_15
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	18th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, I3E 2019 - Trondheim, Norway Duration: 18 Sept 2019 → 20 Sept 2019

Publication series

Name	IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Volume	573 AICT
ISSN (Print)	1868-4238
ISSN (Electronic)	1868-422X

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Conference	18th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, I3E 2019
Country/Territory	Norway
City	Trondheim
Period	18/09/19 → 20/09/19

Keywords

Computer-supported collaboration
Creative writing
Crowd teams
Self-organization

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Lykourentzou, I., Liapis, A., Papastathis, C., Papangelis, K., & Vassilakis, C. (2020). Exploring Self-organisation in Crowd Teams. In I. O. Pappas, I. O. Pappas, P. Mikalef, L. Jaccheri, J. Krogstie, Y. K. Dwivedi, & M. Mäntymäki (Eds.), Digital Transformation for a Sustainable Society in the 21st Century - I3E 2019 IFIP WG 6.11 International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 164-175). (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Vol. 573 AICT). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39634-3_15

Lykourentzou, Ioanna ; Liapis, Antonios ; Papastathis, Costas et al. / Exploring Self-organisation in Crowd Teams. Digital Transformation for a Sustainable Society in the 21st Century - I3E 2019 IFIP WG 6.11 International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Ilias O. Pappas ; Ilias O. Pappas ; Patrick Mikalef ; Letizia Jaccheri ; John Krogstie ; Yogesh K. Dwivedi ; Matti Mäntymäki. Springer, 2020. pp. 164-175 (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology).

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Lykourentzou, I, Liapis, A, Papastathis, C, Papangelis, K & Vassilakis, C 2020, Exploring Self-organisation in Crowd Teams. in IO Pappas, IO Pappas, P Mikalef, L Jaccheri, J Krogstie, YK Dwivedi & M Mäntymäki (eds), Digital Transformation for a Sustainable Society in the 21st Century - I3E 2019 IFIP WG 6.11 International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol. 573 AICT, Springer, pp. 164-175, 18th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, I3E 2019, Trondheim, Norway, 18/09/19. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39634-3_15

Exploring Self-organisation in Crowd Teams. / Lykourentzou, Ioanna; Liapis, Antonios; Papastathis, Costas et al.
Digital Transformation for a Sustainable Society in the 21st Century - I3E 2019 IFIP WG 6.11 International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Ilias O. Pappas; Ilias O. Pappas; Patrick Mikalef; Letizia Jaccheri; John Krogstie; Yogesh K. Dwivedi; Matti Mäntymäki. Springer, 2020. p. 164-175 (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Vol. 573 AICT).

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Lykourentzou I, Liapis A, Papastathis C, Papangelis K, Vassilakis C. Exploring Self-organisation in Crowd Teams. In Pappas IO, Pappas IO, Mikalef P, Jaccheri L, Krogstie J, Dwivedi YK, Mäntymäki M, editors, Digital Transformation for a Sustainable Society in the 21st Century - I3E 2019 IFIP WG 6.11 International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers. Springer. 2020. p. 164-175. (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-39634-3_15

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