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The concern of inattentive respondents in surveys is widely acknowledged and has been extensively researched, and crowd-sourcing platforms further complicate this issue with the additional problem of bot usage to automatically respond to surveys. This ...

Online petition systems as a crowd-sourcing and feedback tool offered by public authorities are becoming more and more common these days. The volume of incoming petitions from digital platforms is increasing. Governments typically review petitions in a ...

Serendipity is a notion that means an unexpected but valuable discovery. Due to its elusive and subjective nature, serendipity is difficult to study even with today's advances in machine learning and deep learning techniques. Both ground truth data ...

Local civic participation is essential to democracy. Yet, citizens need to be informed about local matters to get involved. Becoming and staying informed about developments in one’s neighbourhood is difficult as local knowledge is scattered among online ...

Public surveys intend to integrate civic values into official decision-making. Because such surveys are typically infrastructured from the top-down, citizens’ participatory agency is often reduced to reacting to concerns that may not align with their ...

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is a cost-efficient and scalable tool to automate real-time captioning. Even though its overall quality has improved rapidly, generated transcripts can be inaccurate. While manual correction helps to increase ...

Over the last two decades, libraries and archives of natural history museums and botanical gardens in the US have spent major efforts to digitize their holdings. However, transporting these digitized resources from individual repositories to a wider ...

Morality plays an important role in culture, identity, and emotion. Recent advances in natural language processing have shown that it is possible to classify moral values expressed in text at scale. Morality classification relies on human annotators ...

Product bundling is a commonly-used marketing strategy in both offline retailers and online e-commerce systems. Current research on bundle recommendation is limited by: (1) noisy datasets, where bundles are defined by heuristics, e.g., products co-...

Making ancient handwritten manuscripts accessible to the general public is challenging, for several reasons. Foremost, they are handwritten. Each and every one is unique, so there is a need for manual transcription for providing enough examples for ...

It has been shown in multiple studies that expert-created on-demand assistance, such as hint messages, improves student learning in online learning environments. However, there are also evident that certain types of assistance may be detrimental to ...

While 5G has offered many opportunities for research, the majority of studies have been conducted with constrained experimental settings or done privately by 5G operators. Even a year after the launch of commercial 5G networks, research over commercial ...

With modern supply chains spanning the globe, materials or components that companies use in their products may be sourced from areas prone to injustice and human rights abuse. A major challenge stakeholders face is the gathering of accurate data ...

The value of students developing the capacity to make accurate judgements about the quality of their work and that of others has been widely recognised in higher education literature. However, despite this recognition, little attention has been paid to ...

This paper discusses the potential for player-data interaction enabled through the medium of gameplay that is procedurally generated using crowd-sourced data. A mobile game, which is called 'Balance Trucks' procedurally generates levels containing ...

The software development life cycle (SDLC) starts with business and functional specifications signed with a client. In addition to this, the specifications also capture policy / procedure / contractual / regulatory / legislation / standard compliances ...

Travelling is not always fun for wheelchair users in the built environment (both indoor and outdoor) in presence of various unknown barriers, such as, uneven sidewalks, curb heights, stairs, ramps, cobbled streets, etc. Also, elderly individuals are ...

Real-time traffic monitoring has had widespread success via crowd-sourced GPS data. While drivers benefit from this low-level, low-latency road information, any high-level traffic data such as road closures and accidents currently have very high latency ...

Relevance judgments are conventionally formed by small numbers of experts using ordinal relevance scales defined by two or more relevance categories. Such judgments often contain many ties: documents in the same category that cannot be separated by ...

Smart cities (SCs) are becoming highly sophisticated ecosystems at which innovative solutions and smart services are being deployed. These ecosystems consider SCs as data production and sharing engines, setting new challenges for building effective SC ...