Ubicomp Brainstorming

Problems

Concerns

Participants -Surveillance / control - Alienation

- People are not connected to the world

- People are not connected to the purpose of the job - Moral valence - Addiction -- Farmville (and virtual currency) - Reputation portability -- no incentives for superrogatory behavior - Personally bearing high risk

“Employer”

Disclosure

Reputation

Platforms

Spam free

How much liability should they bear

Systemic concerns:

Motivation (kill time, fun, make a living)

Disclosure

Race to the bottom

Exploitation of workers

Standard labor law

Profit mainly away

Child labor

Addiction

How to keep the work from hurting people / the internet

Demographics

In house employees losing jobs (but counterbalanced by more innovation?)

Low quality of work

What about when governments do this?

SOLUTIONS

Taxonomy

FTC: Full disclosure (for content providers) of paid opinions

Safe harbor – notice and takedown

Best practices - focused at who?

Crowd-owned platforms

Technological/plugins

'Real Name' analogue 'Real Purpose' for disclosure

Categorize employers

Volunteer filtering

Social tools (live chat etc.) for alienation

Platform interoperability for reputation portability

Plugins like Turkopticon for reviews of tasks