Human-based Computing Process

A Human-based Computing Process is a computing process that is a human system that solves computational tasks through human computation.

• AKA: Human Computation, Human-based Computing.
• Context:
  • It can (typically) leverage Human Intelligence for problem solving
  • It can (typically) coordinate Human Computers through task distribution
  • It can (typically) aggregate Human Input via result collection
  • It can (often) utilize Crowd Intelligence for parallel processing
  • It can (often) manage Human Resources through task assignment
  • It can (often) ensure Quality Control via result validation
  • ...
  • It can range from being a Single Human Computer to being a Crowd-Centric Computing System, depending on its computation scale
  • It can range from being a Simple Task Process to being a Complex Task Process, depending on its task complexity
  • It can range from being a Sequential Human Process to being a Parallel Human Process, depending on its process organization
  • It can range from being a Specialist-based Process to being a Crowd-based Process, depending on its human resource type
  • It can range from being a Manual Human Process to being an Assisted Human Process, depending on its technology integration
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  • It can solve Human-based Computation Tasks through:
    • Pattern Recognition Tasks requiring human perception
    • Natural Language Tasks requiring human understanding
    • Creative Tasks requiring human creativity
    • Decision Making Tasks requiring human judgment
  • ...
• Example(s):
  • Crowdsourcing Systems, such as:
    • Amazon Mechanical Turk for distributed human computation
    • Foldit for protein folding optimization
    • reCAPTCHA for text digitization
    • ...
  • Specialist Computing Systems, such as:
    • Human Calculators for mathematical computation
    • Human Translators for language processing
    • Human Analysts for data interpretation
    • ...
  • Hybrid Human-Machine Systems, such as:
    • Interactive Machine Learning Systems using human feedback
    • Human-in-the-Loop Systems for decision validation
    • Collaborative Problem Solving Systems combining human and machine intelligence
    • ...
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Software-based Computing Systems that operate without human computation
  • Automated Processing Systems that exclude human involvement
  • Machine Learning Systems that learn without human input
  • Autonomous Systems that operate independently
• See: Human Computer, Crowd Computing, Collective Intelligence, Human Computation Algorithm, Crowdsourcing Platform, Human-in-the-Loop Computing, Specialist-Centric Computing System.

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References

2013

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-based_computation
  • Human-based computation (HBC) is a computer science technique in which a machine performs its function by outsourcing certain steps to humans. This approach uses differences in abilities and alternative costs between humans and computer agents to achieve symbiotic human-computer interaction.

    In traditional computation, a human employs a computer to solve a problem; a human provides a formalized problem description and an algorithm to a computer, and receives a solution to interpret. Human-based computation frequently reverses the roles; the computer asks a person or a large group of people to solve a problem, then collects, interprets, and integrates their solutions.

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