Ubicomp Brainstorming

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