Grassroots clinical research using crowdsourcing

Arjun Appadurai " Grassroots Globalization and the Research

Globalization is certainly a source of anxiety in the U.S. academic world. And the sources of this anxiety are many: Social scientists (especially economists) worry about whether markets and deregulation produce greater wealth at the price of increased inequality. Political scientists worry that their field might vanish along with their favourite object, the nation-state, if globalization truly...

Crowdsourcing the Research Process

Research is a high skill and resource intensive activity, both in time and effort, and often follows an ad hoc process. In a research process, its often unclear what ingredients; or what recipe or process, which if repeated produces a publishable paper. Meanwhile, experienced researchers with novel ideas are constrained with limited time and funding resources; and motivated students with except...

Conducting Online Behavioral Research Using Crowdsourcing Services in Japan

Recent research on human behavior has often collected empirical data from the online labor market, through a process known as crowdsourcing. As well as the United States and the major European countries, there are several crowdsourcing services in Japan. For research purpose, Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is the widely used platform among those services. Previous validation studies have show...

Ontological Services Using Crowdsourcing

This paper develops a service for ontology evolution based on crowdsourcing. The approach is demonstrated using OntoAssist, a specially designed semantic search service that is capable of capturing and disambiguating user’s search intent as well as automatically enabling ontology evolution. Successful and consistent ontology evolution often requires large amount of input data to specify new ter...

Crowdsourcing and patient engagement in research.