We welcome submissions* (nips2012wp@gmail.com) related to (but not limited to) the following topics:

•Biases, probabilistic observation processes, noise processes, and other imperfections in citizen science and human computation

•Novel citizen science and human computation projects in science and sustainability

•Human-machine interactions and human computation in science and sustainability

•Novel modeling paradigms for citizen science and human computation projects in science and sustainability

•Methods for recruitment, retention, and modeling of human participants

•Dataset shift and domain adaptation methods for citizen science and human computation projects

•Spatio-temporal active learning and general inference techniques on citizen science and human computation projects

*Every submission should include both a paper and a poster. The paper should be in standard nips format (final format, not a blind-author submission), up to 4 pages maximum and the poster in portrait format and up to 33” x 47“ (A0) dimensions.

Expected outcomes of this workshop include: a list of open problems, acquaintance with relevant work between scientific domains, a 5-year research roadmap, emerging collaborations between participants, and attracting more people to work in Computational Sustainability and Human Computation. In addition, we will explore avenues for organizing a future machine learning competition, on a large-scale HC problem such as eBird, to foster and strengthen the community around a prototypical HC effort.

Contact: nips2012wp@gmail.com