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Creative crowdsourcing involves sourcing people for creative projects such as graphic design, crowdsourcing architecture, product design, [12] apparel design, movies, [164] writing, company naming, [165] illustration, etc. [166] [167] While crowdsourcing competitions have been used for decades in some creative fields such as architecture ...
Crowdsourced testing is an emerging trend in software testing which exploits the benefits, effectiveness, and efficiency of crowdsourcing and the cloud platform.It differs from traditional testing methods in that the testing is carried out by a number of different testers from different places, and not by hired consultants and professionals.
DesignCrowd, a crowdsourcing marketplace for graphic design and creative services, launched in February 2008 and helped run a contest for global footwear company HI-TEC. HI-TEC "estimated that using DesignCrowd.com [and crowdsourcing] for the project saved HI-TEC up to half the costs of going down the usual design route". [28]
Crowdsourcing can be useful in the case of conceptual replications (i.e., testing a same research question through different operationalizations). [ 35 ] [ 36 ] When testing a same research question, variations in study designs can lead to strong variations in effect size estimations. [ 28 ]
[1] [2] Crowdfunding is a form of crowdsourcing and alternative finance. In 2015, over US$34 billion was raised worldwide by crowdfunding. [3] Although similar concepts can also be executed through mail-order subscriptions, benefit events, and other methods, the term crowdfunding refers to internet-mediated registries. [4]
Crowd computing is a form of distributed work where tasks that are hard for computers to do, are handled by large numbers of humans distributed across the internet.. It is an overarching term encompassing tools that enable idea sharing, non-hierarchical decision making and utilization of "cognitive surplus" - the ability of the world’s population to collaborate on large, sometimes global ...
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Crowdsourcing software development or software crowdsourcing is an emerging area of software engineering. It is an open call for participation in any task of software development, including documentation, design, coding and testing. These tasks are normally conducted by either members of a software enterprise or people contracted by the enterprise.