Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing system in which tasks are distributed to population of thousands anonymous workers for completion. This increasingly popular with researchers and developers. Here we extend previous studies the demographics usage behaviors MTurk workers. We describe how worker has changed over time, shifting from primarily moderate-income, U.S.-based workforce towards an international group significant young, well-educated Indian change points may treat...

The ability to learn is a potentially compelling and important quality for interactive synthetic characters. To that end, we describe practical approach real-time learning Our implementation grounded in the techniques of reinforcement informed by insights from animal training. It simplifies task characters (a) enabling them take advantage predictable regularities their world, (b) allowing make maximal use any supervisory signals, (c) making easy train humans.We built an autonomous animated...

Many software systems today control large-scale sociotechnical systems. These aren't just entangled with the environment but also our dwindling resources and mostly unsustainable way of living, while planet's population continues to grow. Dealing sustainability requirements systematically supporting their elicitation, analysis, realization is a problem that has yet be solved. Decades ago, discipline engineering dealt similar shortcomings in its processes by including safety security as new...

High-level guidelines for the treatment of crowdworkers.

The future of computing research relies on addressing an array limitations a planetary scale.

Abstract As AI systems proliferate, their greenhouse gas emissions are an increasingly important concern for human societies. In this article, we present a comparative analysis of the carbon associated with (ChatGPT, BLOOM, DALL-E2, Midjourney) and individuals performing equivalent writing illustrating tasks. Our findings reveal that emit between 130 1500 times less CO2e per page text generated compared to writers, while illustration 310 2900 image than counterparts. Emissions analyses do...

Within the last decade, blogs have become an important element of popular culture, mass media, and daily lives countless Internet users. Despite medium's interactive nature, most research on focuses either blog itself or blogger, rarely if at all focusing reader's impact. In order to gain a better understanding social practice blogging, we must take into account role, contributions, significance reader. This paper presents findings qualitative study readers, including common reading...

What happens if efforts to achieve sustainability fail? Research in many fields argues that contemporary global industrial civilization will not persist indefinitely its current form, and may, like past human societies, eventually collapse. Arguments environmental studies, anthropology, other indicate this transformation could begin within the next half-century. While imminent collapse is far from certain, it prudent consider now how develop sociotechnical systems for use these scenarios. We...

Research in many fields argues that contemporary global industrial civilization will not persist indefinitely its current form, and may, like past human societies, eventually collapse. Arguments environmental studies, anthropology, other indicate this transformation could begin within the next half-century. While imminent collapse is far from certain, it prudent to consider now how develop sociotechnical systems for use these scenarios. We introduce notion of informatics---the study, design,...

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have raised questions about whether the use of AI is appropriate and legal various professional contexts. Here, we present a perspective on how scholars may approach writing conjunction with offer approaches to evaluating or not such AI-writing violates copyright falls within safe harbor fair use. We set best practices for standard care regard plagiarism, copyright, As likely grow more capable coming years, it begin integrating into scholarly...

"Tools for human computers" is an underexplored design space in computation research, which has focused on techniques buyers of rather than sellers. We characterize the sellers one market, Mechanical Turk, and describe some challenges they face. list several projects developed to approach these problems, conclude with a open questions relevant sellers, buyers, researchers.

A significant amount of research has focused on blogs, bloggers, and blogging. However, relatively little work examined blog readers, their interactions with or impact This paper presents a qualitative study focusing specifically readers political blogs to develop better understanding readers' bloggers. is the first such examine same blogging activity from both bloggers' perspectives. Readers' significance contributions are through number themes, including: community membership...

Current software engineering practices have significant effects on the environment. Examples include e-waste from computers made obsolete due to upgrades, and changes in power demands of new versions software. Sustainable aims create reliable, long-lasting that meets needs users while reducing environmental impacts. We conducted three related research efforts explore this area. First, we investigated extent which thought about impact their usage. Second, created a tool called GreenTracker,...

Abstract University students have begun to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in many different ways their undergraduate education, some beneficial learning, and simply expedient completing assignments with as little work possible. This exploratory qualitative study examines how used AI a large General Education course on sustainability technology at research university the United States 2023. Thirty-nine documented of final project, which involved analyzing conceptual networks connecting core...

Article Free Access Share on Expressive autonomous cinematography for interactive virtual environments Authors: Bill Tomlinson Synthetic Characters Group, MIT Media Lab, Room E15-320G / 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA MAView Profile , Bruce Blumberg E15-309 Delphine Nain Authors Info & Claims AGENTS '00: Proceedings of the fourth international conference Autonomous agentsJune 2000Pages 317–324https://doi.org/10.1145/336595.337513Published:01 June 2000Publication History...

The energy consumption of computers has become an important environmental issue. This paper describes the development Green Tracker, a tool that estimates software in order to help concerned users make informed decisions about they use. We present preliminary results gathered from this system's initial usage. Ultimately information will be used raise awareness and more central concern among developers.

Requirements engineers are in a unique position to encourage the consideration of sustainability at formative phase software development life cycle. In this paper, we look how can develop as non-functional requirement (NFR). We describe an NFR framework that is informed by models and discuss it be used appropriately elicit related requirements system developed. outline roadmap for may integrate sustain- ability engineering from theoretical applicable quality relevant standards.

column Share on A grand challenge for HCI: food + sustainability Authors: Juliet Norton University of California, Irvine IrvineView Profile , Ankita Raturi Bonnie Nardi Sebastian Prost Open Lab, Newcastle University, UK UKView Samantha McDonald Daniel Pargman KTH Royal Institute Technology TechnologyView Oliver Bates Lancaster UniversityView Maria Normark Södertörn Bill Tomlinson Nico Herbig German Research Center Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) (DFKI)View Lynn Dombrowski Indiana -- Purdue...

Environmental issues often span long periods of time, far-flung areas, and labyrinthine layers complexity. In Greening through IT, Bill Tomlinson investigates how the tools techniques information technology (IT) can help us tackle environmental problems at such vast scales. describes theoretical, technological, social aspects a growing interdisciplinary approach to sustainability, Green offering both human-centered framework for understanding IT systems specific examples case studies in...

Information system designers embed values into the systems they design, even if unwittingly. However, embedded in many information clash with held by sustainability communities. This research focuses on two grassroots sustainable agriculture communities, which are seeking to develop a food infrastructure that is under their own control, and thereby more resilient disruptions across globe. paper presents five-year ethnographic study of these maps out members explores implications use could be...

We propose a new domain for sociotechnical system design: creating ecosystems food production that are sustainable while producing high yields. Drawing on the field of agroecology, we discuss techniques allowing range users to design can overcome environmental costs industrial agriculture. Industrial agriculture, relying declining reserves fossil fuels and generating increasingly costly externalities, is unsustainable. Agroecology cannot scale until practitioners have access detailed...

Proponents of 'Blockchain for Good' – blockchain efforts seeking to enable benefits humans and the environment have suggested that technology can support sustainability. However, while previous research has addressed aspects sustainability affordances Blockchain Good projects, constraints these projects impose not faced equal consideration. Furthermore, theoretical concepts 'problems' 'solutions' implicit in been made clear. In this exploratory study, we evaluate 28 use cryptocurrencies or...