Thanks Mel, for your response and suggestions. It's just in time as I am finalizing plans for the semester that begins next week.
My own limited research into crowdsourcing type projects did not yield much so I was thinking of having the students do something similar to one of your suggestions, i.e. take an existing project and add on a social computational solution to one of the problems. I'll keep you posted on how that goes. Perhaps I'll see you at the Grace Hopper conference in October ... Monisha** ---------------------------------- Dr. S. Monisha Pulimood Associate Professor Dept. of Computer Science 225 Holman Hall The College of New Jersey 2000 Pennington Rd Ewing, NJ 08628 Tel: (609) 771 2788 On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Mel Chua <[email protected]> wrote: > In the fall I will be teaching an undergraduate course on social >> computational systems (human computation a la Luis von Ahn's work on >> Duolingo and reCaptcha, Amazon's Mechanical Turk, etc. as well as >> crowdsourcing ...) >> > > Does anyone know of existing FOSS projects related to this topic area >> that my students could get involved in? >> > > This might be too late already, but I didn't want Monisha's note to pass > without an answer. > > There don't seem to be any big FOSS projects on social computational > systems (though I could be missing something). There *are* wrappers and > interfaces to popular ones, like boto, http://docs.pythonboto.org/en/** > latest/index.html <http://docs.pythonboto.org/en/latest/index.html>, a > python interface to mechanical turk. > > My gut feel tells me that an open *content* project might make a better > host for this sort of class -- or an open source software project that has > a task that could be crowdsourced (bug triage, for instance). You could > have students solve a problem for an open {source, content, hardware, > culture, etc} community by implementing a social computational system, > using things like boto to hook the pieces together. > > Alternatively, there are also FOSS projects that could be supercool if a > social computational system was implemented in it. For instance, look at > http://lwt.sourceforge.net, a multi-user webapp for learning how to read > in a foreign language. Perhaps it might benefit from having a > Duolingo-inspired feature added to it? > > That's what first comes to my mind, anyhow. Curious as to what you ended > up doing! > > --Mel >
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