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[Brian Keegan]

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Fourth Annual Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Online Behavioral Experiments (COBE 2016)

OVERVIEW
The World Wide Web has resulted in new and unanticipated avenues for conducting large-scale behavioral experiments. Crowdsourcing sites like Amazon Mechanical Turk, CrowdFlower, Upwork, TaskRabbit, among others, have given researchers access to a large participant pool that operates around the clock. As a result, behavioral researchers in academia have turned to crowdsourcing sites in large numbers. Moreover, websites like eBay, Yelp and Reddit have become places where researchers can conduct field experiments. Companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Yahoo! conduct hundreds of randomized experiments on a daily basis. We may be rapidly reaching a point where most behavioral experiments will be done online.

The main purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers conducting behavioral experiments online to share new results, methods and best practices.

BASIC INFORMATION
Submission Deadline: December 22, 2015
Notification Date: February 2, 2016
Workshop Date: TBA but between April 11 and 13th, 2016.
Cocktails: At the Bar
Location: Montreal, Canada. A workshop before the 25th International World Wide Web Conference: http://www2016.ca/ which takes place April 11-15, 2016.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to:
Crowdsourcing
Online behavioral experiments
Online field experiments
Online natural or quasi-experiments
Online surveys
Human Computation

PAPER SUBMISSION
Submit papers electronically by visiting

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cobe2016

logging in or creating an account, and clicking New Submission at the top left. Submissions are non-archival, meaning contributors are free to publish their results subsequently in archival journals or conferences. There will be no published proceedings. Submissions should be up to two (2) pages of text, with an optional extra page for figures and references only. The submission deadline is December 22, 2015

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Siddharth Suri, Microsoft Research NYC
Winter A. Mason, Facebook
Daniel G. Goldstein, Microsoft Research NYC

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University
Pavel Atanasov, Polly Portfolio
Laura Brandimarte, Carnegie Mellon University
Jesse J. Chandler, Mathematica
Yiling Chen, Harvard University
Nicolas Della Penna, Australian National University
Dean Eckles, MIT Sloan School of Business
Alice Gao, University of British Columbia
Sam Gosling, University of Texas at Austin
John Horton, NYU Stern
Eric Johnson, Columbia University
Brian Keegan, Northeastern University
Peter Krafft, MIT
Andrew Mao, Microsoft Research
Akitaka Matsuo, Nuffield College
Gabriele Paolacci, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Eyal Pe'Er, Bar-Ilan University
Ragan Petrie, George Mason University
Alexander Peysakhovich, Facebook
David Rand, Yale Unviersity
David Rothschild, Microsoft Research
Sven Seuken, University of Zurich
Sean Taylor, Facebook
Florian Teschner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Microsoft Research
Jens Witkowski, University of Freiburg
Georgios Zervas, Boston University School of Management
Peter Zubcsek, University of Florida Warrington College of Business