TY - GEN
T1 - Putting the pieces back together again
T2 - 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2017
AU - Malone, Thomas W.
AU - Nickerson, Jeffrey V.
AU - Laubacher, Robert J.
AU - Fisher, Laur Hesse
AU - De Boer, Patrick
AU - Han, Yue
AU - Towne, W. Ben
PY - 2017/2/25
Y1 - 2017/2/25
N2 - A key issue, whenever people work together to solve a complex problem, is how to divide the problem into parts done by different people and combine the parts into a solution for the whole problem. This paper presents a novel way of doing this with groups of contests called contest webs. Based on the analogy of supply chains for physical products, the method provides incentives for people to (a) reuse work done by themselves and others, (b) simultaneously explore multiple ways of combining interchangeable parts, and (c) work on parts of the problem where they can contribute the most. The paper also describes a field test of this method in an online community of over 50,000 people who are developing proposals for what to do about global climate change. The early results suggest that the method can, indeed, work at scale as intended.
AB - A key issue, whenever people work together to solve a complex problem, is how to divide the problem into parts done by different people and combine the parts into a solution for the whole problem. This paper presents a novel way of doing this with groups of contests called contest webs. Based on the analogy of supply chains for physical products, the method provides incentives for people to (a) reuse work done by themselves and others, (b) simultaneously explore multiple ways of combining interchangeable parts, and (c) work on parts of the problem where they can contribute the most. The paper also describes a field test of this method in an online community of over 50,000 people who are developing proposals for what to do about global climate change. The early results suggest that the method can, indeed, work at scale as intended.
KW - Climate change
KW - Collective intelligence
KW - Contest webs
KW - Contests
KW - Coordination
KW - Incentives
KW - Knowledge reuse
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U2 - 10.1145/2998181.2998343
DO - 10.1145/2998181.2998343
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85014769329
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 1661
EP - 1674
BT - CSCW 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Y2 - 25 February 2017 through 1 March 2017
ER -