Paid Micro-Task

A Paid Micro-Task is a micro-task that is a paid task.

• AKA: Piecework.
• Context:
  • It can range from being a Paid Human-level Intelligence Microtask to being Paid Non-Human-level Intelligence Microtask.
  • It can (typically) have a Fixed Price Piece Rate.
• Example(s):
  • an mturk HIT.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • an Unpaid Micro-Task.
  • a Macro-Task.
• See: Manufacturing Piecework, Service Piecework, Amazon Mechanical Turk.

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References

2015

• (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piece_work Retrieved:2015-9-19.
  • Piece work (or piecework) is any type of employment in which a worker is paid a fixed piece rate for each unit produced or action performed regardless of time.

2013

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piece_work#Work_settings
  • …Crowdsourcing systems such as Mechanical Turk involve minute information-processing tasks (such as identifying photos or recognizing signatures) for which workers are compensated on a per-task basis.

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