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XVIII.4 July + August 2011
Page: 78
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What the disability community can teach us about interactive crowdsourcing


Authors:
Jeffrey Bigham, Richard Ladner

"Can you tell me what this says?" You might be faced with this question in any number of contexts: Maybe you've gone to lunch with a blind friend who is deciding what to order off of the menu. Maybe you've volunteered to help read mail or the local newspaper with an older person who has recently lost her vision. Maybe your job is to process mail-in forms, deciphering the sloppy handwriting of people looking for a new credit card. Maybe you spend extra minutes in the evenings on Mechanical Turk making a bit of money helping to make OCR…




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