MmmTurkey: A Crowdsourcing Framework for Deploying Tasks and Recording Worker Behavior on Amazon Mechanical Turk

نویسندگان

  • Brandon Dang
  • Miles Hutson
  • Matthew Lease
چکیده

Internal HITs on Mechanical Turk can be programmatically restrictive, and as a result, many requesters turn to using external HITs as a more flexible alternative. However, creating such HITs can be redundant and timeconsuming. We present MmmTurkey, a framework that enables researchers to not only quickly create and manage external HITs, but more significantly also capture and record detailed worker behavioral data characterizing how each worker completes a given task.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره abs/1609.00945  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2016