Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Online Behavioral Experiments
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CALL FOR PAPERS
A workshop at the 14th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, Philadelphia, June 17, 2013.
Submission Deadline: April 26, 2013
Official Web Page: http://www.decisionresearchlab.com/cobe/
OVERVIEW
The World Wide Web has resulted in new and unanticipated avenues for conducting large-scale behavioral experiments. Crowdsourcing sites like Amazon Mechanical Turk, oDesk, and Taskcn, among others, have given researchers access to a large participant pool that operates around the clock. As a result, behavioral researchers in academia have turned to crowdsourcing sites in large numbers. Moreover, websites like eBay, Yelp and Reddit have become places where researchers can conduct field experiments. Companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Yahoo! conduct hundreds of randomized experiments on a daily basis. We may be rapidly reaching a point where most behavioral experiments will be done online.
This workshop seeks to bring together researchers and academics to present their latest online behavioral experiments.
TOPICS OF INTEREST:
Topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to:
* Crowdsourcing
* Online behavioral experiments
* Online field experiments
* Online natural or quasi-experiments
* Online surveys
* Human Computation
PAPER SUBMISSION:
Submit papers electronically by visiting https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cobe2013, logging in or creating an account, and clicking New Submission at the top left.
Submissions are non-archival, meaning contributors are free to publish their results subsequently in archival journals or conferences. There will be no published proceedings. Submissions should be up to 6 pages including references. Accepted papers will be presented as talks.
Deadline for submissions: April 26, 2013
Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2013
ORGANIZATION:
* Siddharth Suri, Microsoft Research
* Winter A. Mason, Stevens Institute of Technology
* Daniel G Goldstein, Microsoft Research
Program committee and invited speakers will be announced soon.
