Background Environment Characteristics of Crowd-Workers from German Speaking Countries Experimental Survey on User Environment Characteristics

Crowdsourcing has been used extensively for gathering and annotating data cost efficiently. Nowadays, there are multiple platforms offering crowd-sourced workforce, still most of these users are from Asia or English speaking countries, and not so many native German speakers. Thus, there is a lack of information regarding the conditions in which German users execute tasks, neither about their habits when taking part in crowdsourcing campaigns. Which is of main importance to address properly user studies to German crowd-workers. This paper reports on a survey that investigated the environments’ characteristics of users from German speaking countries. To this end, a study has been conducted in which users were asked to provide details about the surroundings in which they normally execute crowdsourcing tasks. Audio and visual data was collected per user which contributed to aggregate even more information on the users’ input. We provide insights aimed at easing the decision making process when designing subjective user studies.