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. 2023 Jan 10;32(1):75–124. doi: 10.1007/s10726-022-09801-1

Table 12.

Assignments of the Found Statements About Artificial Intelligence

Source Statement AI
Function
Facilitation
Activity
Abhinav et al. (2018) Acts as a virtual buddy for the worker and helps them throughout their career journey Acting Worker Motivation
Abhinav et al. (2018) Pro-actively supports worker’s needs Acting

Contribution

Support

Abhinav et al. (2018) Data-driven advice to worker. Generating

Contribution

Support

Abhinav et al. (2018) Helps the user to navigate crowdsourcing platform Acting Crowd Coordination
Abhinav et al. (2018) Guides the user towards the most appropriate tasks Acting Goal Orientation
Abhinav et al. (2018) Recommends the best career path progressions and skills to train in Generating Worker Motivation
Abhinav et al. (2018) Recommends tasks to workers based on worker’s preference, Generating

Task

Communication

Abhinav et al. (2018) Predicting fitment of a worker with the selected task, id est., how fit a worker is for the selected task Predicting Task Design
Abhinav et al. (2018) Recommends the right marketplace to the crowd workers based on profile information Generating

Task

Communication

Abhinav et al. (2018) Identify the goal of the worker Recognizing Goal Orientation
Abhinav et al. (2018) Presents the response to the worker in a conversational interface. Generating

Contribution

Support

Abhinav et al. (2018) Keeps track of the worker’s status and activities on the platform Reasoning

Performance

Monitoring

Gimpel et al. (2020) Facilitator in achieving consensus within crowd discussions efficiently Acting Crowd Moderation
Gimpel et al. (2020) Measuring and fostering cross-fertilization Reasoning

Performance

Monitoring

Gimpel et al. (2020) Lead crowd discussions to better results Acting Crowd Moderation
Gimpel et al. (2020) Facilitate online discussions Reasoning Crowd Moderation
Gimpel et al. (2020) Decision support in crowdsourcing, yielding more efficient and effective decision-making. Acting Decision Making
Gimpel et al. (2020) Track participants’ activity Reasoning

Performance

Monitoring

Gimpel et al. (2020) Record activity data and calculate statistics by phase and type of activity per participant Reasoning

Performance

Monitoring

Gimpel et al. (2020) Aggregate activity into relevant KPIs Reasoning

Performance

Monitoring

Gimpel et al. (2020) Automatically extract activity data Reasoning

Performance

Monitoring

Gimpel et al. (2020) Enrich activity statistics with background information Recognizing

Performance

Monitoring

Gimpel et al. (2020) Assess the similarity between contributions Reasoning Quality Control
Gimpel et al. (2020) Assess the semantic similarity of pairs or larger sets of contributions Reasoning Quality Control
Gimpel et al. (2020) Provide a list of pairs/sets of potentially redundant contributions Recognizing Quality Control
Gimpel et al. (2020) Provide a list of similar contributions Recognizing Quality Control
Gimpel et al. (2020) Help participants when submitting their contributions to avoid redundancy Acting

Contribution

Support

Gimpel et al. (2020) Group contributions which are thematically linked and identify the topics of these groups Reasoning

Contribution

Aggregation

Gimpel et al. (2020) Provide suggestions of clusters, accounting for multiple levels of detail Reasoning

Contribution

Aggregation

Gimpel et al. (2020) Provide suggestions for groups of contributions, which are easily rearrangeable Reasoning

Contribution

Aggregation

Gimpel et al. (2020) Identify topic(s) in content groups Recognizing

Contribution

Aggregation

Gimpel et al. (2020) Assess the knowledge domains captured by contributions Reasoning

Contribution

Evaluation

Gimpel et al. (2020) Indicate the extent to which knowledge domains are represented per contribution Reasoning

Contribution

Evaluation

Gimpel et al. (2020) Define a set of knowledge domains relevant to the given task Predicting Task Design
Gimpel et al. (2020) Define a set of knowledge domains based on participants’ backgrounds Predicting Task Design
Gimpel et al. (2020) Assess knowledge domains covered over time Reasoning

Contribution

Evaluation

Haas et al. (2015) Predictive model of worker quality to select trusted workers to perform review Predicting Crowd Coordination
Haas et al. (2015) A separate predictive model of task quality to decide which tasks to review Predicting Quality Control
Haas et al. (2015) Identify the ideal trade-off between a single phase of review and multiple phases of review given a constrained review budget in order to maximize overall output quality Reasoning Workflow Design & Selection
Haas et al. (2015) Reduce errors introduced by workers either unintentionally (due to innocent mistakes) or maliciously (due to collusion or spamming) Recognizing Quality Control
Haas et al. (2015) Organizes the crowd hierarchically Acting Crowd Coordination
Haas et al. (2015) Provides a predictive model of task error Predicting Quality Control
Haas et al. (2015) Tracks worker quality over time Reasoning

Performance

Monitoring

Haas et al. (2015) Promote the most qualified workers to the top of the hierarchy Decision-making Worker Motivation
Haas et al. (2015) Selecting tasks to review Recognizing Quality Control
Haas et al. (2015) Identify skilled workers Recognizing

Participation

Encouragement

Haas et al. (2015) Determining the quality of a task Predicting Task Design
Kittur et al. (2013) Tasks may be structured through multi-stage workflows in which workers may collaborate either synchronously or asynchronously. As part of this, AI may guide (and be guided by) crowd workers. Acting Crowd Coordination
Kittur et al. (2013) Decomposing tasks into subtasks Acting Task Design
Kittur et al. (2013) Assignment of tasks in relation to individuals’ abilities Decision-making Task Design
Kittur et al. (2013) Guide workers to complete synchronous tasks Acting

Contribution

Support

Kittur et al. (2013) Automatic assignment of group members to maximize collective intelligence Decision-making Task Design
Kittur et al. (2013) Help make the crowd more efficient, skilled, and accurate Acting Crowd Coordination
Kittur et al. (2013) Design machine learning algorithms that more deeply understand the human nature of these labels Reasoning

Contribution

Evaluation

Kittur et al. (2013) Determine which work products may still be improved Recognizing Quality Control
Kittur et al. (2013) Assign workers most likely to make such improvements Decision-making Task Design
Kittur et al. (2013) Predict their expertise needs in advance, then train and adapt workers in an online fashion via automated tutoring or peer learning Predicting Task Design
Kittur et al. (2013) Designing and integrating workflow, incentive, and instruction patterns Decision-making Workflow Design & Selection
Kittur et al. (2013) Serve as a reflective aids, encouraging the crowd to learn by pointing out what others have done in similar contexts Acting Crowd Moderation
Kittur et al. (2013) Sharing information about workers should be coupled with more robust systems for monitoring and reporting requester abuses Reasoning

Performance

Monitoring

Kittur et al. (2013) Guiding crowds on which tasks to complete (task assignment) Decision-making Crowd Coordination
Nagar et al. (2016) Reduce the cognitive load of expert judges Acting

Contribution

Evaluation

Nagar et al. (2016) Classify and rate crowd-proposals Reasoning

Contribution

Evaluation

Nagar et al. (2016) Indicators of the completeness and maturity of the proposal Reasoning

Contribution

Evaluation

Nagar et al. (2016) Organize the review process somewhat differently, and hopefully, more efficiently Decision-making Workflow Design & Selection
Nagar et al. (2016) Prioritize the review sequence Decision-making

Contribution

Evaluation

Nagar et al. (2016) Automatically scoring these complex intellectual artifacts Reasoning Quality Control
Nagar et al. (2016) Aid human experts in the review process Acting

Contribution

Evaluation

Qiao et al. (2018) Distributes the skillful workers and less-skilled workers Decision-making Task Design
Qiao et al. (2018) Determine which worker or group of workers should be assigned tasks Recognizing Task Design
Qiao et al. (2018) Records everyone’s work execution time Reasoning

Performance

Monitoring

Qiao et al. (2018) Maximizes the overall assignment quality Acting Task Design
Rhyn and Blohm (2017) Extract useful information from unstructured data Recognizing

Contribution

Evaluation

Rhyn and Blohm (2017) Cluster ideas Reasoning

Contribution

Aggregation

Rhyn and Blohm (2017) Selecting novel ideas Recognizing

Contribution

Evaluation

Rhyn and Blohm (2017) A DSS should identify relevant contributions in the data set. Recognizing

Contribution

Evaluation

Rhyn and Blohm (2017) A DSS should remove irrelevant contributions from the data set. Acting

Contribution

Aggregation

Rhyn and Blohm (2017) A DSS should aggregate redundant information for the decision-maker. Reasoning

Contribution

Aggregation

Rhyn and Blohm (2017) A DSS should prioritize important information for the decision-maker. Decision-making Decision Making
Rhyn et al. (2017) Tracking the origin of contributions in crowdsourcing Reasoning

Contribution

Evaluation

Rhyn et al. (2017) Analyzing their textual characteristics Reasoning Quality Control
Rhyn et al. (2017) Identifying the most innovative ones Recognizing

Contribution

Evaluation

Rhyn et al. (2017) Predictors for innovative contributions Predicting

Contribution

Evaluation

Rhyn et al. (2017) Evaluation of large amounts of contributions Reasoning

Contribution

Evaluation

Seeber et al. (2016) Facilitate the development of shared understanding Acting Crowd Moderation
Seeber et al. (2016) Improved idea quality Acting Quality Control
Seeber et al. (2016) Recommendations could be designed that provide feedforward guidance to extend idea descriptions Predicting Crowd Moderation
Seeber et al. (2020) Automatically guide the behavior of humans, such as imposing communication patterns onto the group, asking clarification questions, giving recommendations, or providing feedback Acting Crowd Moderation
Seeber et al. (2020) Helps evaluate the consequences of potential solutions Acting

Contribution

Evaluation

Seeber et al. (2020) Debates the validity of proposed positions offering evidence and arguments Generating Decision Making
Seeber et al. (2020) Provides predictions to unstructured problems Predicting Task Design
Seeber et al. (2020) Participates in cognitive decision making with human actors Acting Decision Making
Seeber et al. (2020) Incorporate and understand emotional signals from humans Reasoning Crowd Moderation
Seeber et al. (2020) Support the team in coming up with conclusions Acting

Contribution

Support

Seeber et al. (2020) Identify certain group dynamics Recognizing Crowd Moderation
Seeber et al. (2020) Foster team cohesion Acting

Culture

Development

Seeber et al. (2020) Mitigating negative cognitive biases Acting Risk Management
Tavanapour and Bittner (2018) Facilitation of the idea submission process Acting

Contribution

Support

Tavanapour and Bittner (2018) Reach each contributor on idea platforms in an initial idea submission process Acting

Task

Communication

Tavanapour and Bittner (2018) Actively asks questions in one-to-one collaboration and encourages the contributor to think about missing details and add them before the idea is released to the filtering or voting process Acting Quality Control
Tavanapour and Bittner (2018) Guide users in such a way that they can more thoroughly elaborate on their ideas Acting Crowd Moderation
Tavanapour and Bittner (2018) React correctly to statements Acting Crowd Moderation
Tavanapour and Bittner (2018) Actively ask questions Generating Crowd Moderation
Tavanapour and Bittner (2018) Lead conversation Acting Crowd Moderation
Tavanapour and Bittner (2018) Motivate participants to qualitatively edit initial ideas Acting

Participation

Encouragement

Tavanapour and Bittner (2018) Display productivity oriented behavior Reasoning

Performance

Monitoring

Tavanapour and Bittner (2018) Prevent deviation to other topics & guide conversation back to idea Acting Goal Orientation
Tavanapour and Bittner (2018) Construct interesting & pleasant conversation Generating Crowd Moderation
Tavanapour and Bittner (2018) Provide correct reactions to statements Generating Crowd Moderation
Tazzini et al. (2013) Favoring motivation and creative participation among users Acting

Participation

Encouragement

Tazzini et al. (2013) Track and quantify the contribution of each solver to the final solution Reasoning

Performance

Monitoring

Tazzini et al. (2013) Boosting motivation Acting Worker Motivation
Tazzini et al. (2013) Supporting and driving users creativity Acting

Contribution

Support

Tazzini et al. (2013) Ensures fairness and objectivity in measuring the contribution of each individual Acting

Performance

Monitoring

Tazzini et al. (2013) Select the experts with the required skills for the specific submitted problem Decision-making Task Design
Tazzini et al. (2013) Dynamic evaluation of individuals’ ability Reasoning Task Design