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The term crowdsourcing, introduced in 2006 by combining crowd and outsourcing, refers to “the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call” [41, 49].

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    https://www.mturk.com.

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    Collected statistics by MTurk Tracker [21] were aggregated.

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    https://microworkers.com.

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    https://www.clickworker.com.

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    https://www.crowdee.de.

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    https://www.crowdflower.com/.

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    http://turkernation.com/.

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    http://turkopticon.ucsd.edu/.

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    http://turkmotion.com/.

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    Instead of starting hype, the system is not utilized by the crowdworkers.

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Naderi, B. (2018). Introduction. In: Motivation of Workers on Microtask Crowdsourcing Platforms. T-Labs Series in Telecommunication Services. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72700-4_1

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