Information-Processing Micro-Task

A Information-Processing Micro-Task is an information-processing task that is a micro-task.

• Context:
  • It can range from being a Simple Micro Information-Processing Task to being a Human-level Intelligence Micro Information-Processing Task.
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• Example(s):
  • identifying photos.
  • recognizing signatures.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Macro Information-Processing Task.
• See: Amazon Mechanical Turk HIT.

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References

2013

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piece_work#Work_settings
  • …Crowdsourcing systems such as Mechanical Turk involve minute information-processing tasks (such as identifying photos or recognizing signatures) for which workers are compensated on a per-task basis.

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