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As an extension to using | As an extension to our scripting tool that is used to gather data from research assistants, we have begun to integrate Amazon's Mechanical Turk as an alternate means of gathering data. We create HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks) on Mechanical Turk which would lead the Turkers to our internal scripting tool where they would complete the task and receive a confirmation code. The confirmation code is then entered into the HIT page on Amazon to complete the task. Currently, the HITs are generated from the scripting tool's database into a CSV (comma separated values) file. This file is then manually uploaded to Mechanical Turk to publish the HITs. | ||
We would like to automate the process of submitting the HITs file to Mechanical Turk. Skills required for this task involve using Ruby on Rails and the Mechanical Turk API. | |||
Revision as of 15:47, 12 March 2009
As an extension to our scripting tool that is used to gather data from research assistants, we have begun to integrate Amazon's Mechanical Turk as an alternate means of gathering data. We create HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks) on Mechanical Turk which would lead the Turkers to our internal scripting tool where they would complete the task and receive a confirmation code. The confirmation code is then entered into the HIT page on Amazon to complete the task. Currently, the HITs are generated from the scripting tool's database into a CSV (comma separated values) file. This file is then manually uploaded to Mechanical Turk to publish the HITs.
We would like to automate the process of submitting the HITs file to Mechanical Turk. Skills required for this task involve using Ruby on Rails and the Mechanical Turk API.