Future of crowdwork, week 47

We have now been able to hit our stride with reaching the final results. Confidence is quite high and we feel that we will be able to present an interesting and novel idea. Enough that we are in the state of working more with the details of the presentation and articles than refining the idea.

Writing of the article has begun in earnest and a first draft should be done by sunday night. Three major themes will provide the backbone:

• Surveillance culture
• AI and the distribution system
• Image recognition
• Machine learning
• Crowd work drivers

AI is perhaps the most confounding one of these, as our central idea does not really rely on it. However, for now we feel it provides necessary context as it to some extent is an alternative solution to ours (no need for humans looking at surveillance feeds if a computer can do it), but also could be used to enhance it. Either way it makes for a more plausible scenario than if we try and ignore it.

The other two themes are fairly straightforward in their application for our idea, but we feel we need more meat on the crowd work drivers in particular. More reference on how our system would engage people is necessary to make it believable.

As for the final presentation we currently rely heavily on the short film we create to engage and explain. This brings with it certain challenges, especially as we have decided to make it a corporate sales pitch made 15 years into the future. Mostly, we think about how much of the presentation of the system details (image recognition, distribution of tasks, response, etc) should be in the film, and how much should be said by ourselves live. Storytelling and social context we are quite confident have their place in the video.