8:00 – 9:00 ASRC MKT

• At CI 2018. Hell of a time setting up eduroam. Nice venue, though. Winston Churchill called for the unification of Europe from that podium. Probably without PowerPoint 
• Patrick Meier – keynote – Digital humanitarian efforts
  • Mission is to pioneer the next generation of humanitarian technology
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• Poster pitches
  • Multiple barriers to crowdsourcing, ranging from operational to strategic
  • Anita Wollie – trust in AI Embedded agency, Virtual agency, Physical Agency
  • Croudoscope – qualitative and quantitative surveys – open coments. Not lists, but graphs
  • Market volitility with High-Frequency trading an hmans
  • How many people constitutes a ‘crowd’
  • Is novelty an advantage in crowdfunding
  • QUEST – annotating questions on stackoverflow-style probles’
  • Cyber-physical systems – e.g. smart transportation systems
• Papers
  • Social sensitivity is correlated with group performance (mehdimoussaid.com)
• Keynote 2
  • Optimizing the Human-Machine Partnership with Zooniverse 
    • Lucy Fortson
    • Galaxy Zoo
    • Zooniverse is on its third iteration and now supports project building
    • Can also point to a project
• Session 2
  • Collective Intelligence for Deep Reinforcement Learning (MIT, mostly)
    • Evolutionary strategies (Salimans 2017) 
  • Social learning strategies for matters of taste (This is a must-read!)
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  • Photo Sleuth: Combining Collective Intelligence and Computer Vision to
    Identify Historical Portraits
    • Good discussion of how to blend human and ML person identification
  • Toward Safer Crowdsourced Content Moderation
  • How Intermittent Breaks in Interaction Improve Collective
    • This is very much a nomad/flocking/stampede paper
    • Very worth citing. Nice methods.
    • Relates to this? Brainstorming doesn’t work