IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/jamist/v62y2011i7p1311-1324.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Fight or unite: Investigating game genres for image tagging

Author

Listed:
  • Dion Hoe‐Lian Goh
  • Rebecca P. Ang
  • Chei Sian Lee
  • Alton Y.K. Chua

Abstract

Applications that use games to harness human intelligence to perform various computational tasks are increasing in popularity and may be termed human computation games (HCGs). Most HCGs are collaborative in nature, requiring players to cooperate within a game to score points. Competitive versions, where players work against each other, are a more recent entrant, and have been claimed to address shortcomings of collaborative HCGs such as quality of computation. To date, however, little work has been conducted in understanding how different HCG genres influence computational performance and players' perceptions of such. In this paper we study these issues using image tagging HCGs in which users play games to generate keywords for images. Three versions were created: collaborative HCG, competitive HCG, and a control application for manual tagging. The applications were evaluated to uncover the quality of the image tags generated as well as users' perceptions. Results suggest that there is a tension between entertainment and tag quality. While participants reported liking the collaborative and competitive image tagging HCGs over the control application, those using the latter seemed to generate better quality tags. Implications of the work are discussed.

Suggested Citation

  • Dion Hoe‐Lian Goh & Rebecca P. Ang & Chei Sian Lee & Alton Y.K. Chua, 2011. "Fight or unite: Investigating game genres for image tagging," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 62(7), pages 1311-1324, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamist:v:62:y:2011:i:7:p:1311-1324
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.21478
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.21478
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1002/asi.21478?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:jamist:v:62:y:2011:i:7:p:1311-1324. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.asis.org .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.