Participatory Art Museum: Collecting and Modeling Crowd Opinions

To reduce prejudice, As a secular temple of high culture, the traditional art museum all artwork used for this experiment were famous artists' has been dominated by expert-generated contents that relatively less well-known works with factual information help visitors to "decipher" fine art: labels and docent-led hidden from participants. We ran the task on Amazon Mechanical tours, while providing necessary guidance, often establish Turk for its large and representative subject pool a one-way communication in which non-expert visitors are (Paolacci, Chandler, and Ipeirotis 2010). Each participant received perceived as a passive body of recipient and educatee. With an average of $0.096 for answering these questions: the rise of the general public as an anonymous "crowd" in the past decade, many professionals began to reevaluate Write a couple sentences to describe the mood of this the role of non-expert audiences in museum experiences image and your interpretation: how does this image (Antrobus 2010). More art museums are now encouraging make you feel? What do you think it is about? Why? means for public engagement, ranging from discussionbased We collected a total of 2116 sentences from crowd. For gallery tours to crowdsourcing tagging and transcription all 21 works, we also collected corresponding articles from tasks online (Simon 2010; Ridge 2014).