Use of Mechanical Turk as a MapReduce Framework for Macular OCT Segmentation by Aaron Y. Lee, Cecilia S. Lee, Pearse A. Keane, Adnan Tufail

“…A total of 22 individual Mechanical Turk users provided segmentations, each completing an average of 5.5 HITs. …”
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Data Workers in AI development by Jonas Chagas Lucio Valente

“…Such challenges are illustrated by discussing two major cloudwork platforms: Amazon Mechanical Turk and Microworkers.…”
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Transparency Enhances Positive Perceptions of Social Artificial Intelligence by Ying Xu, Nora Bradford, Radhika Garg

“…A total of 914 participants were recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk. They were randomly assigned to observe conversations between a hypothetical chatbot and a user in one of the two-by-two experimental conditions: whether the participants received an explanation about how the chatbot was trained and whether the chatbot was framed as an intelligent entity or a machine. …”
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Virtual Culinary Influence: Investigating the Impact of Food Vlogs on Viewer Attitudes and Restaurant Visit Intentions by Tu-Anh Truong, Diana Piscarac, Seung-Mi Kang, Seung-Chul Yoo

“…Hypotheses were quantitatively assessed through an online survey with 347 participants from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk), analyzed using SPSS 22 and AMOS 22 for structural equation modeling (SEM). …”
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From information to action: modelling social and cognitive factors in health decisions by Jiadong Yu, D. A. Bekerian

“…-based participants via Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) between January 28–30, 2023. Results Perceived vulnerability and perceived severity had distinct effects on information source preferences. …”
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The impact of visual fidelity on screen-based virtual reality food choices: A randomized pilot study. by Bianca Curi Braga, Pejman Sajjadi, Mahda Bagher, Alexander Klippel, Jessica Menold, Travis Masterson

“…<h4>Participants</h4>84 participants recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk.<h4>Intervention</h4>Participants were randomly assigned to either a high- (n = 43) or a low- (n = 41) visual fidelity environment and were asked to select foods to have a meal with a friend.…”
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To label or not? A choice experiment testing whether labelled green bonds matter to retail investors by Vasundhara Saravade, Olaf Weber, Adam Vitalis

“…By employing 1105 Amazon Mechanical Turk workers across three choice scenarios, we test whether alignment of pro-environmental personal norms or having specific personal traits can have a mediating effect on their green bond preferences. …”
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Dispositional mindfulness profiles and psychological symptoms: a latent profile analysis by Fereshteh Mehrabi, Fereshteh Mehrabi, Shadi Beshai, Shadi Beshai

“…., anxiety and depressive symptoms).MethodsThis cross-sectional study included 604 individuals recruited from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform (MTurk). We performed latent profile analyses (LPA) to explore the individual profiles based on scores on dispositional mindfulness facets. …”
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Head rotation and the perception of eyelid height and contour by Daniel B Rootman, Elana Meer, Nicholas J Jackson, Stefania B Diniz, John M Nesemann

“…This study investigates surgeons’ and laypeople’s accuracy and efficiency in perceiving eyelid asymmetry from different spatial perspectives.Methods A prospective psychometric experiment was conducted where oculoplastic surgeons were recruited from the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the Brazilian Oculoplastic Surgery Society, and control participants were recruited via crowdsourcing (Amazon’s Mechanical Turk). Standard illustrations of the human face with varying degrees of eyelid abnormality, laterality, gender and rotation were presented to participants who were asked to judge whether the eyelids were symmetric or asymmetric.Results The survey was completed by 75 oculoplastic surgeons (49.33% male; mean age of 46.9±10.7) and 192 lay individuals (54.6% male; mean age 34.6±11.3 years). …”
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