NDLI: XTribe: A Web-Based Social Computation Platform

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Author	Caminiti, S. Cicali, C. Gravino, P. Loreto, V. Servedio, V.D.P. Sirbu, A. Tria, F.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Inst. for Sci. Interchange (ISI), Turin, Italy (Cicali, C.; Sirbu, A.; Tria, F.) \|\| Inst. for Complex Syst. (ISC), Rome, Italy (Caminiti, S.) \|\| Phys. Dept., Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Rome, Italy (Gravino, P.; Loreto, V.; Servedio, V.D.P.)
Abstract	In the last few years the Web has progressively acquired the status of an infrastructure for social computation that allows researchers to coordinate the cognitive abilities of human agents in on-line communities so to steer the collective user activity towards predefined goals. This general trend is also triggering the adoption of web-games as a very interesting laboratory to run experiments in the social sciences and whenever the contribution of human beings is crucially required for research purposes. Nowadays, while the number of on-line users has been steadily growing, there is still a need of systematization in the approach to the web as a laboratory. In this paper we present Experimental Tribe (XTribe in short), a novel general purpose web-based platform for web-gaming and social computation. Ready to use and already operational, XTribe aims at drastically reducing the effort required to develop and run web experiments. XTribe has been designed to speed up the implementation of those general aspects of web experiments that are independent of the specific experiment content. For example, XTribe takes care of user management by handling their registration and profiles and in case of multi-player games, it provides the necessary user grouping functionalities. XTribe also provides communication facilities to easily achieve both bi-directional and asynchronous communication. From a practical point of view, researchers are left with the only task of designing and implementing the game interface and logic of their experiment, on which they maintain full control. Moreover, XTribe acts as a repository of different scientific experiments, thus realizing a sort of showcase that stimulates users' curiosity, enhances their participation, and helps researchers in recruiting volunteers.
Starting Page	397
Ending Page	403
File Size	711445
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780769551142
DOI	10.1109/CGC.2013.69
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-09-30
Publisher Place	Germany
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Protocols Social computation platform Human computation Citizen science Communities Games Servers Reliability Web-based experiment Facebook GWAP
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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