This is a pretty high-level summary (e.g., not that detailed) of how I create and run a new survey on Mechanical Turk. Since people have lots of different ways of using Mechanical Turk, this how-to may or may not be for you. I’ve also noticed that nearly every survey or questionnaire I put on Mechanical [...]
Following the exciting brainstorming around the betacup at Overlap last weekend, our team has created a survey to better understand the practices of coffee drinking. If you’re a coffee (or tea!) drinker and have a moment to complete it, please do! (This has also been cross-posted on Mechanical Turk to get a wider diversity of [...]
After Kittur, Chi, and Suh’s Crowdsourcing user studies with Mechanical Turk (CHI 2008), Ed Chi and I decided to run another study using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service. I finally tallied our “expenses” and response rate, and though it would be interesting to share.
Now, Ed and I were interested in learning something interesting about web search, [...]
