TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring Self-organisation in Crowd Teams
AU - Lykourentzou, Ioanna
AU - Liapis, Antonios
AU - Papastathis, Costas
AU - Papangelis, Konstantinos
AU - Vassilakis, Costas
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Computer-supported collaboration
KW - Creative writing
KW - Crowd teams
KW - Self-organization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85081923637&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-39634-3_15
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-39634-3_15
M3 - Conference Proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:85081923637
SN - 9783030396336
T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 164
EP - 175
BT - Digital Transformation for a Sustainable Society in the 21st Century - I3E 2019 IFIP WG 6.11 International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Pappas, Ilias O.
A2 - Pappas, Ilias O.
A2 - Mikalef, Patrick
A2 - Jaccheri, Letizia
A2 - Krogstie, John
A2 - Dwivedi, Yogesh K.
A2 - Mäntymäki, Matti
PB - Springer
T2 - 18th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, I3E 2019
Y2 - 18 September 2019 through 20 September 2019
ER -