do my work for $0.03
Really busy at work - we're prototyping an enterprise social networking service that's supposed to punch through the firewall in a big way. My part involves customizing an open-source platform to meet our needs; seeing that all the developers are either busy or have spontaneously left the company as soon as the project started, I've set up my one-man "full UCD cycle" shop. With the speed of a cheetah that's been caught in a bear trap, I mock up what I need to do, hand it off to the front-end developer (me), muck around with the PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript soup, have the testers (namely, myself) play with the changes in the sandbox environment, and then release it to our prototype. It would be fine if the other projects that I need to work on stopped for the time being, but they continue demanding my attention like a bunch of unfed babies.
On a somewhat related topic, I just stumbled upon Amazon's "Mechanical Turk" service (here's the Wikipedia explanation), and am now pondering ways of splitting up my workload into HITs ;)
On a somewhat related topic, I just stumbled upon Amazon's "Mechanical Turk" service (here's the Wikipedia explanation), and am now pondering ways of splitting up my workload into HITs ;)
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Check out this very popular paper from CHI last year:
Kittur, A., Chi, E., Suh, B. (2008). Crowdsourcing User Studies With Mechanical Turk. CHI 2007: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human-factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM Press
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