Comments on: The Labor Economics of Paid Crowdsourcing http://blog.crowdflower.com/2010/01/the-labor-economics-of-paid-crowdsourcing/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:03:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dean Eckles http://blog.crowdflower.com/2010/01/the-labor-economics-of-paid-crowdsourcing/#comment-2135 Dean Eckles Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:35:04 +0000 http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2010/01/the-labor-economics-of-paid-crowdsourcing/#comment-2135 PS I'd be interested to try fitting the Fitts' law model to your data once you post it. PS I’d be interested to try fitting the Fitts’ law model to your data once you post it.

]]> By: Dean Eckles http://blog.crowdflower.com/2010/01/the-labor-economics-of-paid-crowdsourcing/#comment-2134 Dean Eckles Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:23:39 +0000 http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2010/01/the-labor-economics-of-paid-crowdsourcing/#comment-2134 That all sounds good to me. Thanks. FYI you don't need the actual physical distance: only the ratio D/W is in Fitts' law. Perhaps I should write about Mechanical Turk etc. more on my blog -- haven't hit that topic in a while. That all sounds good to me. Thanks.

FYI you don’t need the actual physical distance: only the ratio D/W is in Fitts’ law.

Perhaps I should write about Mechanical Turk etc. more on my blog — haven’t hit that topic in a while.

]]> By: John http://blog.crowdflower.com/2010/01/the-labor-economics-of-paid-crowdsourcing/#comment-2132 John Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:45:02 +0000 http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2010/01/the-labor-economics-of-paid-crowdsourcing/#comment-2132 Shoot - I should have put in a citation! Lydia came up with the task and wrote the code for it. I liked it because it was easy to explain and had easy-to-vary difficulty. As far as fitting the data - I'm planning on posting the data on my website soon. We asked users about their input device and we grabbed whatever system information was available (we didn't use it in the paper though) - but I don't think we can say for certain what the actual physical distance was between bars. Thanks for commenting. BTW, I like your blog and I put a link to it on my website. Shoot – I should have put in a citation!

Lydia came up with the task and wrote the code for it. I liked it because it was easy to explain and had easy-to-vary difficulty.

As far as fitting the data – I’m planning on posting the data on my website soon. We asked users about their input device and we grabbed whatever system information was available (we didn’t use it in the paper though) – but I don’t think we can say for certain what the actual physical distance was between bars.

Thanks for commenting.

BTW, I like your blog and I put a link to it on my website.

]]> By: Dean Eckles http://blog.crowdflower.com/2010/01/the-labor-economics-of-paid-crowdsourcing/#comment-2131 Dean Eckles Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:29:50 +0000 http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2010/01/the-labor-economics-of-paid-crowdsourcing/#comment-2131 Interesting work -- thanks for sharing. I see you're using a 1D Fitts' law task. Do you have any particular interest in target acquisition tasks, or was this just easy to use for your study? I'd be interested to know what level of success you would have fitting this data to the Fitts' law model. Interesting work — thanks for sharing.

I see you’re using a 1D Fitts’ law task. Do you have any particular interest in target acquisition tasks, or was this just easy to use for your study? I’d be interested to know what level of success you would have fitting this data to the Fitts’ law model.

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