Lilly Irani, another doctoral candidate at UC Irvine, is concerned about a lack of workers’ rights on Mechanical Turk. In one survey she conducted, more than half of the respondents complained of unfair rejection of work that resulted in no payout.
Irani and another UC Irvine student built software called Turkopticon, which aims to level the playing field between workers and requesters by providing better community feedback and information on requesters’ reputations.
Archive for July, 2009
Joel, Lilly and an invisible other former ACE student in the news - July 29th, 2009
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| Posted: 7/29/09 10:52 pm UTC by djp3 Add Your Comment | |
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HITLab Australia opens with Aaron Quigley leading - July 29th, 2009
Exciting news from Aaron Quigley’s blog:
I’m very excited to announce that I am going to be the inaugural director of the Human Interface Technology Laboratory Australia (HIT Lab AU) and an Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Tasmania. The HITLab consists of three international research laboratories. The first is now a leading research lab formed in the University of Washington USA over 20 years ago and the second laboratory was started in New Zealand in 2002. This is the third research lab. ”
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Tags: Aaron Quigley, Australia, pervasive computing |
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| Posted: 7/29/09 3:33 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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How to Ruin Your Summer Vacay: Follow Your GPS Blindly - July 29th, 2009
From:ABC News. Here’s a snip:
“I’m sure we all have a GPS horror story to tell. Those nifty devices sometimes takes one on longer routes than necessary, lead one down roads that no longer exist or always seems to find the worst traffic.
A Swedish couple vacationing in Italy may win the GPS booby prize. The BBC reports that the couple wanted to visit Capri, off Italy’s west coast near Naples. When they arrived at their destination they asked around for directions to the island’s famed Blue Grotto all ready to take in some sun and the stunning sights of rugged cliffs plunging into the sparkling blue Mediterranean.
Instead they were informed that they were 400 miles off course in the industrial town of Carpi in northern Italy. Pilot error… or how two transposed letters can change everything.”
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Tags: geolocation, humor |
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| Posted: 7/29/09 1:48 pm UTC by djp3 Add Your Comment | |
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Interaction Design Diagrammed (and Misspelled) - July 27th, 2009
Data Scienist > Data Geek > Designer ｫ Visualizing Economics
“Reading Nathan Yau’s recent post about the Rise of the Data Scientist inspired me to take a look Ben Fry’s dissertation on Computational Information Design in which he describes the process for understanding data as follows:”
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Tags: design, Ph.D. |
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| Posted: 7/27/09 12:47 am UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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No plans this weekend? Machine Project! - July 23rd, 2009
From Garnet:
If you’re in LA and have no plans for Friday night…
From Machine Project:
Computer Interface: A Video History
Friday, July 24th, 2009
8pm
A talk by Jamie Zigelbaum
The interface is the bridge and bottleneck between humans and
computers. Over the past 50 years researchers have invented and
imagined many and various interfaces to join synapse and transistor.
In this talk Jamie will give a brief history of human-computer
interaction research and we’ll watch videos of seminal interfaces from
Sutherland’s Sketchpad in ‘63 up through the latest nerdtastic work at
MIT and elsewhere.Jamie Zigelbaum is a Ph.D. student in Prof. Hiroshi Ishii’s Tangible
Media Group at the MIT Media Lab. This talk is a version of a lecture
that he’s given with Dr. Jean-Baptiste Labrune in Ishii’s Tangible
Interfaces class and with Labrune and Seth Hunter in Prof. Pattie
Maes’ and Ishii’s New Paradigms for Human-Computer Interaction class.
Jamie is in LA for the summer working downtown at Oblong Industries.
Machine Project
1200 N Alvarado St
Los Angeles, CA 90026-3127
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| Posted: 7/23/09 10:38 am UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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The more followers the more you tweet - July 22nd, 2009
Interesting graph showing the amount of tweeting vs the number of followers on Twitter. This is from a data dense report:
Sysomos | In-Depth Look Inside the Twitter World. Another sound bite-y quote “5% of Twitter users account for 75% of all activity”
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Tags: tech report published, twitter |
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| Posted: 7/22/09 12:50 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Easy Time-Lapse Photography - July 8th, 2009
I had to blog about this cool little gadget. It’s a time-lapse camera, not unlike the Microsoft SenseCam. Add batteries, configure, and forget. Come back in weeks and download the timelapse video. Nice and easy. It seems ripe for cool social hacks.
“Weatherproof time-lapse camera for watching your greenery! Set it up in one minute and shove it into the ground near your prized chrysanthemums. When the growing season is over, you’ll have a visual record of their growth. This camera does time lapse photography the easy way”
From my favorite geekery site: thinkgeek.com
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| Posted: 7/8/09 8:00 am UTC by djp3 Add Your Comment | |
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OutRun Reconsidered, Garnet’s current project - July 7th, 2009
Garnet Hertz has been hanging out with us in the LUCI lab for the last quarter or so while he finishes up his Ph.D. He is continuing his research and has put up a web page with the concept that he is currently developing. For the sake of letting everyone know what everyone else is doing in LUCI, here is a little summary of the project:
This project is motivated by the following concepts:
1. Un-Simulation of Driving – This project un-simulates the driving component of a videogame. Driving game simulations strive to be increasingly realistic, but this realism is usually focused on graphical representations. Instead, this system pursues “real” driving through a videogame as its primary goal.
2. GPS Navigation Parallax & Mixed Reality – Driving with a GPS navigation system can be game-like. This project explores the consequences of only using GPS map data as a navigation tool for driving. The windshield of this project’s vehicle only shows GPS data, and as a result, driving it in the real world is often difficult or dangerous. As a result, this project explores and investigates how GPS data differs from the physical world, and what happens when an augmentation of reality envelops and obfuscates reality.
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Tags: art, Garnet Hertz, Ph.D., vehicle |
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| Posted: 7/7/09 8:37 am UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Information Technology Dashboard - July 6th, 2009
I think this video and the corresponding website is interesting for two reasons. First, because it demonstrates a movement toward open government data which is a new and important trend. The second is because the data itself is about IT spending in the government.
To experience this visualization of this U.S. Government data (and apparently to access the data itself) go here: http://it.usaspending.gov/
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Tags: video, visualization |
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| Posted: 7/6/09 8:48 am UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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South Coast Plaza has an iPod Vending Machine - July 3rd, 2009
Okay, so I don’t get out much, but last night I was at South Coast Plaza and stumbled across this iPod vending machine. I had heard that such things existed before, but I didn’t think I would run into one unless I was in an alley in Japan. It turns out that there is one in Macy’s.
It is iPod branded, but has Sony and other other company products in it also. There is one screen in the upper left with marketing videos running in a loop and a touch screen on the right for picking your gadget.
There was clearly a security concern as there was a special video camera watching it and it was in the middle of a Macy’s, not in an alley in Japan.
So now, if it is too much trouble to get your iPod from the Apple Store 50 feet away, you can use the vending machine instead.
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Tags: fun, infrastructure, ipod, vending machine |
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| Posted: 7/3/09 8:28 am UTC by djp3 Add Your Comment | |
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