Ubiquitous Human Computing
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Ubiquitous Human Computing is the phenomenon of dis-aggregating a task into component pieces and then parceling them out around the world. Perhaps the best-known example is Amazon Mechanical Turk
, where simple tasks that cannot be done by a computer—for example, labeling images—are outsourced to anyone with an internet connection for a low cost.
Amazon Mechanical Turk
The Amazon Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourcing Internet marketplace that enables computer programmers to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks that computers are unable to do yet. It is one of the suites of Amazon Web Services...
, where simple tasks that cannot be done by a computer—for example, labeling images—are outsourced to anyone with an internet connection for a low cost.