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| Type | Conference or Workshop Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Published in Proceedings | Yes |
| Title | Putting the Pieces Back Together Again: Contest Webs for Large-Scale Problem Solving |
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| Presentation Type | paper |
| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Event Title | 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2017) |
| Event Type | conference |
| Event Location | Portland, OR |
| Event Start Date | February 25 - 2017 |
| Event End Date | March 1 - 2017 |
| Place of Publication | Portland, OR |
| Publisher | s.n. |
| Abstract Text | A key issue, whenever people work together to solve a complex problem, is how to divide the problem into parts done by different people and combine the parts into a solution for the whole problem. This paper presents a novel way of doing this with groups of contests called contest webs. Based on the analogy of supply chains for physical products, the method provides incentives for people to (a) reuse work done by themselves and others, (b) simultaneously explore multiple ways of combining interchangeable parts, and (c) work on parts of the problem where they can contribute the most. The paper also describes a field test of this method in an online community of over 50,000 people who are developing proposals for what to do about global climate change. The early results suggest that the method can, indeed, work at scale as intended. |
| Digital Object Identifier | 10.1145/2998181.2998343 |
| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:13963 |
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