Soylent: A Word Processor with a Crowd Inside

This paper introduces architectural and interaction patterns for integrating crowdsourced human contributions directly into user interfaces. We focus on writing and editing, com-plex endeavors that span many levels of conceptual and pragmatic activity. Authoring tools offer help with prag-matics, bu...

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Main Authors: Bernstein, Michael S. (Contributor), Little, Danny Greg (Contributor), Miller, Robert C. (Contributor), Hartmann, Bjorn (Author), Ackerman, Mark S. (Author), Karger, David R. (Contributor), Crowell, David L. (Contributor), Panovich, Katrina Marie (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association for Computing Machinery, 2011-02-15T14:01:17Z.
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