@inproceedings {Mandalari:2015:IPD:2787394.2787397,
	title = {Informing Protocol Design Through Crowdsourcing: The Case of Pervasive Encryption},
	journal = { ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Crowdsharing of Big (Internet) Data},
	year = {2015},
	note = {The paper received the best paper award. 
The paper has been included in a special issue of SIGCOMM CCR that will include the proceedings of SIGCOMM 2015 and award papers from other workshops.},
	pages = {3--8},
	publisher = {ACM},
	address = {New York, NY, USA},
	abstract = {Middleboxes, such as proxies, firewalls and NATs play an important role in the modern Internet ecosystem. On one hand, they perform advanced functions, e.g. traffic shaping, security or enhancing application performance. On the other hand, they turn the Internet into a hostile ecosystem for innovation, as they limit the deviation from deployed protocols. It is therefore essential, when designing a new protocol, to first understand its interaction with the elements of the path. The emerging area of crowdsourcing solutions can help to shed light on this issue. Such approach allows us to reach large and different sets of users and also different types of devices and networks to perform Internet measurements. In this paper, we show how to make informed protocol design choices by using a crowdsourcing platform. We consider a specific use case, namely the case of pervasive encryption in the modern Internet. Given the latest public disclosures of the NSA global surveillance operations, the issue of privacy in the Internet became of paramount importance. Internet community efforts are thus underway to increase the adoption of encryption. Using a crowdsourcing approach, we perform large-scale TLS measurements to advance our understanding on whether wide adoption of encryption is possible in today{\textquoteright}s Internet.},
	keywords = {Crowdsourcing, Internet measurements, middleboxes, TLS},
	isbn = {978-1-4503-3539-3},
	doi = {10.1145/2787394.2787397},
	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2787394.2787397},
	author = {Anna Maria {Mandalari} and Bagnulo, Marcelo and Lutu, Andra}
}
@inproceedings {23566,
	title = {Why Design Matters - Crowdsourcing of Complex Tasks},
	journal = {ACM CrowdMM},
	year = {2015},
	month = {10/2015},
	publisher = {ACM},
	address = {Brisbane, Australia},
	abstract = {In this paper, we show how the power of the crowd can be usedto do complex tasks using human pose estimation as a use case.Crowdsourcing tasks are usually not very complex and easy tosolve by workers that are not experienced in a certain topic. Formore complex tasks, it is general recommended to use experiencedworkers or experts. However, we show that tasks can also be morecomplex for non-expert workers and that they produce data that isclose to what experts would report. Therefore, a detailed descriptionof the crowdsourcing campaign, the methods applied and theresults will be given, and we discuss how the obtained data can beused.},
	keywords = {Annotation, Crowdsourcing, Multimedia},
	doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2810188.2810190},
	author = {Winther, B{\r a}rd and Riegler, Michael and Griwodz, Carsten and Halvorsen, P{\r a}l},
	editor = {Calvet, Lilian}
}
