Finding a lost child using a crowdsourcing framework

摘要

The wide emergence of information and communication technologies has greatly facilitated human life thanks to their high performance and sophisticated features. However, there are tasks that machines cannot yet tackle but they are obvious to achieve for human intelligence. This refers to the human computation paradigm which has long used the human brain as a processor to perform small tasks. The past decade has seen arise a new term that gave more value to the human intelligence, creativity and expertise. Crowdsourcing focuses on the crowd and solicits their intervention to execute complex tasks; especially in some extreme emergency cases that require broad collaboration of a huge public. This paper addresses the problem of missing children and shows the importance of crowdsourcing in solving this dilemma. It will firstly discuss already developed solutions and prove how much they are ineffective. Finally, be presented our concept of a framework based on the principle of crowdsourcing and exploiting the prowess of mobile devices to gather real-time lost child's location data.