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Interactive Crowd-Powered Access Technology

Jeffrey P. Bigham Carnegie Mellon University

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Crowds -> from -> Connectivity

Microtask Marketplaces

Friends and Family on Social Networks

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Deployable VizWizard of Oz

J.P. Bigham, C. Jayant, H. Ji, G. Little, A. Miller, R. C. Miller, A. Tatrowicz, B. White, S. White and T. Yeh. Nearly Real-Time Answers to Visual Questions. UIST 2010. Best Paper Award.

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Deploying VizWiz

• Released on May 31, 2011 – 5500 users have asked more than 60,000 questions

– answers in less than a minute

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Getting Answers Quickly

What color is this shirt?

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Blind Photography

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Stitching Together Photos

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A Conversation

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Conclusions

• Crowd-Powered Systems

– building intelligent technology you want today

• Exploring what users really want

– “deployable Wizard-of-Oz”

• Scaffolding

– deployments show next-gen problems to solve

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Thanks!

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Funded by: National Science Foundation (#IIS-1149709, #IIS-1116051, #IIS-1049080 ) Google Microsoft

Students and Collaborators

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