TurkBench: Rendering the Market for Turkers

Crowdsourcing is a relatively new model of labor where both the workers and work providers are experiencing its growing pains. A dominant platform that implements this model of labor is Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT). While AMT has evolved over the years, the changes have focused mainly on work providers and have not addressed the problems work-ers face (e.g. dealing with market volatility and unpaid time searching for work). In this paper we present TurkBench, a tool meant to provide workers with personalized market vi-sualization and session management. We discuss the design philosophy of the tool, briefly discuss four Turkers ’ reaction to a demo, and outline future work