IT enabled crowds: leveraging the geomobile revolution for disaster management

This paper offers an exploratory approach to crowdsourcing methods, tools, and roles based on different levels of involvement of users, skills re-quired, and types of data being processed (from raw data to highly structured dada). The paper also aims at refining different crowdsourcing categories an...

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Autores: Poblet, Marta|||0000-0002-0026-989X, García-Cuesta, Esteban, Casanovas, Pompeu|||0000-0002-0980-2371
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:140423
Acesso em linha:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/140423
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Crowdsourcing
Crowdsensing
Micro-tasking
Data
Online platforms
Disaster management
Descrição
Resumo:This paper offers an exploratory approach to crowdsourcing methods, tools, and roles based on different levels of involvement of users, skills re-quired, and types of data being processed (from raw data to highly structured dada). The paper also aims at refining different crowdsourcing categories and opening up a theoretical discussion on the advantages and limits of using crowdsourcing methods and technologies in disaster management activities.