Agent Augmented Inter-Generational Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing is starting to attract elderly workers and can become a possible productive aging platform to help address the shortage of manpower as a result of population aging. An important challenge emerging from this development is how to promote effective inter-generational interactions. Currently, there is little empirical data to help multi-agent systems researchers to design incentive mechanisms for this purpose. In this demonstration, we showcase an intergenerational crowdsourcing mobile app to bridge this gap in existing research. The app enables researchers to conduct largescale empirical studies designed to construct useful datasets reflecting the effectiveness of various persuasive techniques on people from different age groups in promoting intergenerational interactions.