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Biography:
Babak Naderi has obtain his Dr.-Ing degree (PhD) on the basis of his thesis with a title of Motivation of Workers on Microtask Crowdsourcing Platforms in September 2017. Babak has Master's degree in Geodesy and Geoinformation Science form the Technical University Berlin with a thesis on "Monte Carlo Localization for Pedestrian Indoor Navigation Using a Map Aided Movement Model". He has also a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering.
Since August 2012, Babak Naderi is working as a research scientist at the Quality and Usability Lab of TU-Berlin.
2013-2015 Babak was awarded with an BMBF funded Education program for future IT and Development Leadership involving Bosch, Datev, Deutsche Telekom AG, Holtzbrinck, SAP, Scheer Group, Siemens, and Software AG amongst highly ranked academic institution (Softwarecampus). He was taking part by leading CrowdMAQA project.
Within dissertation, Babak studies the motivation of crowdworkers in details. He has developed the Crowdwork Motivation Scale for measuring general motivation based on the Self-Determination Theory of Motivation. The scale has been validated within several studies. In addition, he has studied factors influencing the motivation, and influence of different motivation type on the quality of outcomes. Models for predicting task selection strategy of workers are developed, including models for automatically predicting expected workload associated to a task from its design, task acceptance and performance.
Beside others research activities, Babak is actively working on the standardization of methods for speech quality assessment in crowdsourcing environment in the P.CROWD work program of Study Group 12 in ITU-T Standardization Sector.
Reviewed for WWW, CHI, ICASSP, CSCW, MMSys, PQS, HCOMP, ICWE, QoMEX, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Computer Networks, Behaviour & Information Technology, Quality and User Experience.
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Office Hours: On Appointment
Adresse:
Quality and Usability Lab
Technische Universität Berlin
Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7
D-10587 Berlin
babak.naderi[at]tu-berlin.de