Exploring Cognitive Benefits as an Alternative Motivation for Engaging Older Adults in Crowdwork
- Meredith Ringel Morris ,
- Robin N. Brewer ,
- Anne Marie Piper
HCOMP 2015 Extended Abstracts |
Published by Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Older adults are not frequent crowd workers on general purpose crowd work platforms. Prior work suggests they are not motivated to complete crowd work with existing motivational frameworks. As an alternative, we explore the cognitive benefits of online work as a potential way of engaging older adults in crowdwork. As a first step, we present survey results from experts in aging and cognitive training to assess whether common crowd work tasks might offer cognitive benefits as currently structured.so