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Someone should figure out a way to embed mechanical turk tasks into video games. Then young men can at least get paid a little bit for their game play.
by callmeed 10y ago
Someone should figure out a way to embed mechanical turk tasks into video games. Then young men can at least get paid a little bit for their game play.
- Endy 10y agoBitcoin mining?
- mos_basik 10y agoThe MMO Eve Online partnered with the Human Protein Atlas to embed a protein-mapping minigame in Eve. It was fitted into the game's overarching storyline and gives in-game rewards for participating. A month or two after it was introduced they released some numbers; something like 37 man-years of classification labor had been performed. And because it's in a game with an existing playerbase and provides reward as long as it is played, it is still continuing to yield results (naturally it slowed down after the first peak of interest) in contrast to the tendency (they claim) of most standalone crowdsourced data science projects to struggle to gain traction and dry up fast. http://www.pcworld.com/article/3060692/software-games/how-eve-online-players-are-solving-real-world-science-problems-meet-project-discovery.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/3060692/software-games/how-ev...
- callmeed 10y agoFascinating, thanks for this. I had a suspicion I wasn't the first person to come up with this idea. I wonder how well such a program could expand to other forms of crowdsourced data.