Ubicomp Brainstorming

Problems

Concerns

Participants -Surveillance / control - Alienation

- People are not connected to the world

- People are not connected to the purpose of the job - Moral valence - Addiction -- Farmville (and virtual currency) - Reputation portability -- no incentives for superrogatory behavior - Personally bearing high risk

“Employer” - Disclosure - Reputation

Platforms - Spam free - How much liability should they bear

Systemic concerns: - Motivation (kill time, fun, make a living) - Disclosure - Race to the bottom - Exploitation of workers

- Standard labor law

- Profit mainly away

- Child labor

- Addiction - How to keep the work from hurting people / the internet - Demographics - In house employees losing jobs (but counterbalanced by more innovation?) - Low quality of work - What about when governments do this?

SOLUTIONS

- Taxonomy - FTC: Full disclosure (for content providers) of paid opinions - Safe harbor – notice and takedown - Best practices - focused at who? - Crowd-owned platforms - Technological/plugins

- 'Real Name' analogue 'Real Purpose' for disclosure

- Categorize employers

- Volunteer filtering - Social tools (live chat etc.) for alienation - Platform interoperability for reputation portability - Plugins like Turkopticon for reviews of tasks