Shiyue Zhong
Shiyue is pursuing a Masters in International Affairs at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS. She holds a bachelor degree with Majors in International Studies, Philosophy, Cognitive Science from the Macalester College (St. Paul, Minnesota, USA). Her working experience includes a role as Editorial Assistant at Journal of Asian Studies, and Teaching Fellow at Breakthrough Twin Cities. At our Lab, Shiyue is investigating the impact of human cognition on geospatial mapping.
Session
Human factor is one of the most crucial elements in crowdsourced mapping. This research explores how human bias affects the mapping process and whether such effects can be mitigated through targeted training with a behavioral experiment. The experiment uses a two-group randomized design. The treatment group receives more advanced training than the control group. There are two goals for the experiment. First, we aim to identify the common types of bias that amateurs from a specific demographic community have when using OSM. Second, we plan to explore whether training is helpful for reducing those biases and improve the quality of mapping.