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The Effects of Performance-Contingent Financial Incentives in Online Labor Markets
Online labor markets such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) have emerged as platforms that facilitate the allocation of productive effort across global economies. Many of these markets compensate workers with monetary payments. We study the effects of performance-contingent ļ¬nancial rewards on work quality and worker effort in MTurk via two experiments. We ļ¬nd that the magnitude of performance contingent ļ¬nancial rewards alone affects neither quality nor effort. However, when workers working on two tasks of the same type in a sequence, the change in the magnitude of the reward over the two tasks affects both. In particular, both work quality and worker effort increase (alternatively decrease) as the reward increases (alternatively decreases) for the second task. This suggests the existence of the anchoring effect on workersā perception of incentives in MTurk and that this effect can be leveraged in workļ¬ow design to increasethe effectiveness of ļ¬nancial incentives.Engineering and Applied Science
Sequential Keystroke Behavioral Biometrics for Mobile User Identification via Multi-view Deep Learning
With the rapid growth in smartphone usage, more organizations begin to focus
on providing better services for mobile users. User identification can help
these organizations to identify their customers and then cater services that
have been customized for them. Currently, the use of cookies is the most common
form to identify users. However, cookies are not easily transportable (e.g.,
when a user uses a different login account, cookies do not follow the user).
This limitation motivates the need to use behavior biometric for user
identification. In this paper, we propose DEEPSERVICE, a new technique that can
identify mobile users based on user's keystroke information captured by a
special keyboard or web browser. Our evaluation results indicate that
DEEPSERVICE is highly accurate in identifying mobile users (over 93% accuracy).
The technique is also efficient and only takes less than 1 ms to perform
identification.Comment: 2017 Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge
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Superradiant Solid in Cavity QED Coupled to a Lattice of Rydberg Gas
We study an optical cavity coupled to a lattice of Rydberg atoms, which can
be represented by a generalized Dicke model. We show that the competition
between the atomic interaction and atom-light coupling induces a rich phase
diagram. A novel "superradiant solid" (SRS) phase is found, where both the
superradiance and crystalline orders coexist. Different from the normal second
order superradiance (SR) transition, here both the Solid-1/2 and SRS to SR
phase transitions are first order. These results are confirmed by the large
scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations.Comment: 5 pages,4 figure
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