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International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS): Special
Issue on Mobile and Situated Crowdsourcing<br>
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<b>CfP:</b>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-human-computer-studies/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-mobile-and-situated-crowdsourcing/">http://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-human-computer-studies/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-mobile-and-situated-crowdsourcing/</a><br>
<b>Deadline for submissions:</b> February 15, 2016<br>
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Special Issue Editors:<br>
Jorge Goncalves (University of Oulu, Finland)<br>
Simo Hosio (University of Oulu, Finland)<br>
Maja Vukovic (IBM TJ Watson, USA)<br>
Shin’ichi Konomi (University of Tokyo, Japan)<br>
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Contact: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:msceditors@gmail.com">msceditors@gmail.com</a><br>
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<b>Description</b><br>
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Crowdsourcing beyond the desktop is increasingly attracting interest
due to the rapid proliferation of smart phones and other ubiquitous
technologies, such as public displays. While online crowdsourcing
markets (such as Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, CrowdFlower and oDesk)
make it convenient to pay for workers willing to solve a range of
different tasks, they can suffer from a number of limitations. For
instance, these online platforms do not always attract workers of
desired background or skills. Thus, it can be a challenge to recruit
workers that speak a specific language or live in a certain city.
Further, these online platforms are not ideal to collect information
on the go (either passively or actively) or for tasks that require
workers to be in a specific location. Mobile and situated
crowdsourcing can help fill in the gaps where online platforms are
suboptimal.<br>
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This special issue aims to present a set of high-quality,
high-impact, original research results reporting the current state
of the art of mobile and situated crowdsourcing. Manuscripts must be
original, but significant revisions of papers recently presented at
conferences and workshops will be considered (at least 50% new
material). We encourage contributions in the following key areas and
considering a mobile or situated crowdsourcing context:<br>
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<li>Applications: crowdsourcing applications that can benefit from
being conducted using mobile or situated technologies as opposed
to using online platforms.</li>
<li>Quality control and incentives: designing crowdsourcing
applications that encourage truthful responses.</li>
<li>Methodologies: methods and methodologies used for gathering
and evaluating crowd contributions.</li>
<li>Behaviours: understanding worker behaviours in these contexts.<br>
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<b>Submission</b><br>
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Deadline: the final manuscripts are due February 15, 2016 but early
submissions are encouraged.<br>
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All contributions will be rigorously peer reviewed to the usual
exacting standards of the IJHCS journal. Further information,
including submission procedures and advice on formatting and
preparing your manuscript, can be found at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.elsevier.com/journals/international-journal-of-human-computer-studies/1071-5819/guide-for-authors">http://www.elsevier.com/journals/international-journal-of-human-computer-studies/1071-5819/guide-for-authors</a><br>
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Manuscripts are submitted via the Elsevier Editorial System (EES)
at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ees.elsevier.com/ijhcs/">http://ees.elsevier.com/ijhcs/</a>. It is important that authors
select the article type “SI:MSC” when they submit their articles in
EES.<br>
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To discuss a possible contribution, please contact the special issue
editors at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:msceditors@gmail.com">msceditors@gmail.com</a>
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