Current Research Team
Edith Law
Edith Law is an assistant professor at the David R. Cheriton School
of Computer Science at University of Waterloo and co-director of the Human Computer
Interaction Lab. Her research focuses on studying incentive mechanisms in c
rowdsourcing systems and developing new ways to combine humans and machines to address
problems in science and medicine.
Alex Williams
Alex is a Ph.D. student in the David R.
Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. His research examines
how behavioral aspects of intelligent agents can be leveraged to improve citizen science across the world. He is the lead
architect of CrowdCurio, a self-trained classical guitarist, and a Baron of Sealand.
Mike Schaekermann
Mike is a Ph.D. student on the team who
investigates intelligent task routing procedures and worker models in the context of
crowdsourcing. He primarily works on CrowdEEG creating a hybrid human-machine system
for the scalable and accurate analysis of human brainwave activity.
William Callaghan
William is a Masters of Mathematics student
in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. His research interests are at the
intersection of data analytics, distributed systems and human computation. He is specifically
motivated by problems in the time-series domain and is currently focusing on a project
involving heart sound analysis.
Eddie Du
Eddie is a Computer Science student at the University of
Waterloo currently working on the CrowdEEG platform. He is interested in crowdsourcing,
machine learning, and how they can work together to benefit each other.
Alumni
Over time, we have had the pleasure of working with a talent group of students, research assistants, and collaborators.
Mark Martinez
Mark is a recent University of Waterloo graduate having
earned a BA in Psychology and a minor in Computer Science, with interests in human
computation and human-computer interaction. He is a research assistant for CrowdCurio
and also the resident Disney Expert.
Sophia Guo
Sophia Guo is a fourth-year undergraduate student in
computer science in University of Waterloo. She previously interned at Amazon Web
Services, EA Games, and Oracle Inc and she loves exploring and building up new technologies.
Jing Tao
Jing is a third-year undergraduate student in Computer
Science at the University of Waterloo. He will be an intern in Google in Winter 2017.
He is an enthusiast in new technology and loves traveling.
Stefanie Mikloska
Stefanie is an undergraduate in Computer
Science at the University of Waterloo. Her previous co-ops included projects involving
data visualization, feature engineering and SEO. She is interested in learning about
topics that lie in the intersection of Mathematics and Computer Science.
Clare Ng
Clare is a computer science student at
the University of Waterloo, with interests in areas of human-computer interaction and
computer graphics. Other than software development, she does digital illustration,
runs occasionally, and beats people in Mario Kart.
Helga Jiang
Helga is both a second-year Comptuer Science student and
designer with a technical background passionate about building intuitive, functional,
and beautiful interfaces. When she isn't designing, she runs a
YouTube channel dedicated
to the craft of polymer clay sculpting and has written a book about it too!
Policy Summary
This policy describes (1) the policies associated with contributing to our platform and (2) both what information we collect and how it is used and shared.
Terms of Service
This Terms of Service ("Terms") is our terms of service that governs our relationship with users and
others who interact with CrowdCurio. By using or accessing CrowdCurio, or any of its projects,
you agree to this Terms of Service.
1. Privacy
Your privacy is very important to us. We designed our Privacy Policy to make important disclosures
about how you can use CrowdCurio and how we collect and can use your content
and information. We encourage you to read the Privacy Policy, and to use it to help you make informed decisions.
2. Contributing to CrowdCurio
CrowdCurio is a platform that furthers scientific research by enlisting the help of members of the public (i.e., you)
to create, analyze, interpret, and discuss scientific data. When you participate in one of CrowdCurio's projects, you grant
the CrowdCurio research team and its collaborators the right to use your contributions in whatever way necessary for furthering
scientific research. Additionally, we require that you must be the legal owner of any data (e.g., annotations, images)
that you add or contribute to CrowdCurio.
3. Data Ownership
Any data that you add or contribute to CrowdCurio will remain under your ownership. This includes
contributions made to any of CrowdCurio's projects. At any time, you have the right to request
that your contributions be anonymized and removed from our system.
4. Publication Acknowledgment
The primary goal of our work alongside our collaborators is to further research in the sciences
and humanities. In many cases, research culminates in the form of publishes articles. By participating
in our projects, we do not guarantee any form of authorship nor acknowledgment in any current or
future publications.
Privacy Policy
I. What information do we collect?
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Things you do and information you provide: We collect the content and
other information you provide when you use CrowdCurio, including when you sign up for
an account, contribute to a project, and participate in an experiment.
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Device information: On occasion, we collect information from or about
the computers, phones, or other devices where you access our system, depending
on the permissions you’ve granted. We may associate the information we collect from your
different devices, which helps us provide consistent experiences across your devices.
II. How do we use this information?
We are passionate about people-powered scientific research. We use all of the information we have to help us provide and support our work. Here’s how:
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Scientific research: We are able to host our platform because
of your involvement in scientific research. We collaborate with teams of scientists and
researchers to let you contribute to furthering their work in a variety of work. Along
with our collaborators, we use your information to facilitate new discoveries for their research.
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Human-computer interaction research: As human-comptuer interaction researchers,
our work focuses on how to improve citizen science in general. We use your information
to study how and where citizen science platforms and experiences can be improved. We may also
use your information for improving human-computer intearction reserach outside the space
of citizen science.
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Improving CrowdCurio: diee use your information to drive the design of our
platform. We analyze your information to determine what functionality our platform may
lack and monitor your future information to assess the usefulness of new functionality.
III. How is this information shared?
Researchers use our platform to enlist you in contributing answers to real scientific research questions. Here's how both we and our collaborators share your information:
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Publications: Your information may be shared in the form of published
journal articles, conference proceedings, or academic reports.
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Presentations: Your information may be shared in a presentation to an
audience at conferences, technical workshops, or public demonstrations.
Any questions or legal concerns should be directed via e-mail to
Edith Law.
