Title: Community Crowdsourcing: Lessons Learned and a Research Agenda

Abstract:

The ubiquity of collaboration technologies allows companies, non-profits, and governmental organizational to engage large numbers of people both within and outside their organizational boundaries. This has given rise to new forms of collaboration: From small group, focused and time-boxed collaboration, to an environment in which unstructured, longitudinal mass collaboration is the norm. Specific examples include the Linux open source community, Wikipedia, or new phenomena such as Open Innovation and Collective Intelligence. A particularly interesting phenomenon is crowdsourcing. Research has shown that crowdsourcing can be a very productive approach for organizations. Yet, initiating and sustaining user engagement is but one of the many complex research challenges facing crowdsourcing practitioners and researchers. This seminar will discuss a number of recent research advances in open collaboration crowdsourcing based on a large scale field study with a community crowdsourcing service provider. It will also outline a program of research to increase the value and utility of this type of crowdsourcing.

Speaker: Gert-Jan De Vreede

Date/Time: 9:00-9:40, 23 May, 2022

Online Platform: Tencent Meeting ID: 608-464-874

Brief introduction of the lecturer: 

Gert Jan De Vreede, professor of University of South Florida (USF), is the editor in chief of Group Decision & Negotiation, senior editor of AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, deputy editor in chief of Information & Management, and chairman of the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science. His research interests include artificial intelligence, crowdsourcing and network collaboration. His academic achievements are fruitful and his works have been cited more than 10000 times. The study at Stanford University identified him as the top 2% researcher in all research fields in the world. In 2011, he won the GDN Section Award issued by INFORMS Group Decision & Negotiation Section for his achievements and contributions in the fields of group decision-making, collaborative research and informs GDN section.