Saturday, April 18, 2009

Google's Image Orientation Captcha

Google's new image orientation captcha is a good example of a productivity game. The core skill required is an ability to discern between an upright image and a not-upright, or incorrect, image.

Players use these core skills to work at re-orienting the images correctly.

The paper is here:
http://www.richgossweiler.com/projects/rotcaptcha/rotcaptcha.pdf

"Given a large repository of images, such as those from a web search result, we use a suite of automated orientation detectors to prune those images that can be automatically set upright easily. We then apply a social feedback mechanism to verify that the remaining images have a human-recognizable upright orientation."

CNET http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10222514-2.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0
PCWorld: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/163334/google_offers_top_tip_to_help_beat_bots.html

Tech Blorge: http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2009/04/19/google-tries-out-picture-captchas/

Friday, April 10, 2009

View an archived version of the Productivity Games webinar

PDF of presentation with speaking notes
Also includes links to some of the research and sources that were discussed