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Hoogenhout, G.M. (author)This report is the result of my graduation project at Calendar42. Calendar42 is a web based smart, learning, mobile calendar service aimed at decreasing the cognitive load of the user. Decreasing cognitive load is important in today’s information overloaded society, but more so for a specific group of people: hearing impaired. In the Netherlands...master thesis 2011
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Zehtabchi, S. (author)Nowadays, many researchers and companies are seeking to provide answers to a fundamental question: “How can an organization apply collective intelligence through open innovation and crowdsourcing to create competitive advantage?” On the other hand, the global growth of on-line sales, the web 2.0 revolution and the ability to reach users,...master thesis 2011
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Eickhoff, C. (author), De Vries, A.P. (author)Crowdsourcing successfully strives to become a widely used means of collecting large-scale scientific corpora. Many research fields, including Information Retrieval, rely on this novel way of data acquisition. However, it seems to be undermined by a significant share of workers that are primarily interested in producing quick generic answers...journal article 2012
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Rijcken, T. (author), Stijnen, J. (author), Slootjes, N. (author)The Dutch Delta Program is currently developing new government policies for flood protection and fresh water supply. Decision support instruments have to address the program’s technical and political complexity. The water system functions are highly interwoven and would benefit from an integrated approach on a national level, with decisions...journal article 2012
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Gunawan, L.T. (author), Fitrianie, S. (author), Brinkman, W.P. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author)Despite the growing awareness of the untapped potential of the affected population in a disaster situation, their inclusion in a disaster management is extremely limited. This study aims to survey the literature to see whether utilizing the affected people and prevalent mobile technology can be used during disaster response. The idea is to...conference paper 2012
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Gunawan, L.T. (author)The research focuses on guiding the affected population towards a safe location in a disaster area by utilizing their self-help capacity with prevalent mobile technology. In contrast to the traditional centralized information management systems for disaster response, this research proposes a decen- tralized computer-supported management system...doctoral thesis 2013
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Rudinac, S. (author)To facilitate finding of relevant information in ever-growing multimedia collections, a number of multimedia information retrieval solutions have been proposed over the past years. The essential element of any such solution is the relevance criterion deployed to select or rank the items from a multimedia collection to be presented to the user....doctoral thesis 2013
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Van Sambeek, S.P. (author)Digitised Cultural Heritage Objects like pictures, video and audio are hard to retrieve without metadata like annotations describing what is depicted or the events which take place. Unfortunately the creation of this metadata is quite a slow and lengthy process, especially when this needs to be done in a qualitative manner. So the question...master thesis 2013
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Rijcken, T. (author), Christopher, D.K. (author)The research project ‘SimDelta’ builds on novel internet technology to support the development of the Rhine-Meuse delta water infrastructure. It has three goals: education, organisation of research and design studies, and stakeholder polling. A current question is how the SimDelta technology could be made transferable to systems outside Europe,...journal article 2013
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Basak, Debarshi (author), Loni, B. (author), Bozzon, A. (author)Crowdsourcing and Human computation have enabled industry and<br/>scientists to create innovative solutions by harnessing organised<br/>collective human effort. In human computation platforms, it is<br/>observed that workers spend large amount of time searching for<br/>appropriate tasks due to lack of effective task discovery mechanism. This...conference paper 2014
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Povoa, I. (author)In particular grouping by aesthetics and quality of the media has brought along new challenges for Computational Aesthetics research such as what makes an image beautiful, what means beautiful and how do you quantify beautiful. to meet those challenges, researchers have tried to come up with several algorithms based in different metrics to...master thesis 2014
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Rachyd, A. (author)Society is changing and the government/ municipality is forced into a new role. In Rotterdam, citizen participation has already been part of the financial plan since 2010. In 2010, 3 years before the King’s speech, the executive board of the city of Rotterdam agreed on a four year financial plan to stimulate citizen initiatives in the city of...master thesis 2014
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Post, F. (author)Twitter is one of the most popular social media platforms nowadays with more than 500 million tweets being send on a daily basis. A great variety of topics is discussed on Twitter and health has become a widely mentioned topic on Twitter. Users share updates regarding their own personal health situation and they use Twitter to look up health...master thesis 2014
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Basak, D. (author)Crowdsourcing and Human computation have enabled industry, and scientists to create innovative solutions by harnessing organized collective human effort. In human computation platforms, it is observed that workers spend a considerable amount of time searching for appropriate tasks, thus losing revenues that they could have made and, ultimately,...master thesis 2014
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Basak, D. (author)Crowdsourcing and Human computation have enabled industry, and scientists to create innovative solutions by harnessing organized collective human effort. In human computation platforms, it is observed that workers spend a considerable amount of time searching for appropriate tasks, thus losing revenues that they could have made and, ultimately,...master thesis 2014
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Shah, K. (author)The ‘Stats’ page on Kickstarter.com claims a total of $1,221,791,199 pledged to 65,673 successfully funded projects by 6,613,502 supporters as of today (July 18th, 2014). The tenets of web 2.0 and crowd-based innovation platforms are enabling ordinary but motivated user-innovators to create and own disruptive innovations. This is also pushing...master thesis 2014
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Koehn, K. (author)Crowdsourcing has become a very popular field over the last decade. Many applications where crowdsourcing can be used have been identified. This thesis project researches if some of these crowdsourcing applications can also be applied for internal crowdsourcing, where the crowd consists out of the firm’s employees to improve a company’s...master thesis 2014
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Bazilinskyy, P. (author), de Winter, J.C.F. (author)This study investigated peoples’ opinion on auditory interfaces in contemporary<br/>cars and their willingness to be exposed to auditory feedback in automated driving. We used an Internet-based survey to collect 1,205 responses from 91 countries. The respondents stated their attitudes towards two existing auditory driver assistance systems, a...journal article 2015
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Abcouwer, F.C.A. (author)Human computation platforms offer requesters the possibility to outsource human intelligence tasks or HITs to large amounts of workers around the world. Researching the various aspects of HIT design has the potential to improve the human computation experience for both requesters and workers. This thesis researches the relationship between...master thesis 2015
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Kofler, C. (author)Over the recent years, user expectations of the ability of video search engines have significantly risen. Users expect video search engines to be useful as an instrument that facilitates communication, education, entertainment and problem solving and, in relation to this, to satisfy diverse information needs. A user's information need is the...doctoral thesis 2015