Abstract-Human computation is a technique that makes use of human abilities for computation to solve problems. The human computation problems are the problems those computers are not good at solving but are trivial for humans. In this paper, we give a survey of various human computation systems which are categorized into initiatory human computation, distributed human computation and social game-based human computation with volunteers, paid engineers and online players. For the existing large number of social games, some previous works defined various types of social games, but the recent developed social games cannot be categorized based on the previous works. In this paper, we define the categories and the characteristics of social games which are suitable for all existing ones. Besides, we present a survey on the performance aspects of human computation system. This paper gives a better understanding on human computation system.
In the same year Yuen et al. also presented REF another taxonomy of five crowdsourcing genres: initiatory human computation, distributed human computation, social game-based human computation with volunteers, paid engineers and online players, which is similar to the previously mentioned.
A Survey of Human Computation Systems
2009 International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering
2009 International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering
Computer Science