Crowdsourced user interface testing for multimedia applications

  • Authors:
  • Raynor Vliegendhart;Eelco Dolstra;Johan Pouwelse

  • Affiliations:
  • Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands;LogicBlox, Inc., Atlanta, GA, USA;Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the ACM multimedia 2012 workshop on Crowdsourcing for multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Conducting a conventional experiment to test an application's user interface in a lab environment is a costly and time-consuming process. In this paper, we show that it is feasible to carry out A/B tests for a multimedia application through Amazon's crowdsourcing platform Mechanical Turk involving hundreds of workers at low costs. We let workers test user interfaces within a remote virtual machine that is embedded within the HIT and we show that technical issues that arise in this approach can be overcome.