Coordinating Expert Flash Teams on the Biological Internet of Things
From The Theme POTENTIAL, PERFORMANCE AND PRODUCTIVITY WHAT IF What if we could enable remote team workers to leverage the Internet of Things for collaboration? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO This project set out to improve our understanding of coordination and collaboration in geographically distributed project teams with a specific focus on the requirements […]
Vitae: Digital Hiring Halls for On Demand Workers
From The Theme POTENTIAL, PERFORMANCE AND PRODUCTIVITY WHAT IF What if we could improve the hiring experience for on demand workers and employers? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to develop and test an online tool (Vitae) designed to improve the presentation and evaluation of worker qualifications. Researchers hypothesized that aggregating work […]
EteRNA: Accelerating Knowledge Creation for RNA Bioengineering through Internet-Scale Gaming
From The Theme KNOWLEDGE WORKER PRODUCTIVITY WHAT IF What if technical contributions from citizen scientists could be crowd sourced to accelerate scientific research? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO With the EteRNA project, we aimed to rapidly advance RNA (ribonucleic acid) bioengineering, and overcome the limits of the traditional “trial and error” design cycle within […]
TweakCorps: Re-targeting Existing Webpages for Diverse Devices and Users
From The Theme PUBLISH ON DEMAND WHAT IF What if there were a machine learning algorithm that could identify and label design elements of web pages? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We focused on one popular class of semantic identifiers – those concerned with the structure (information architecture) of a page. Across webpages, there […]