Funtcha

Funtchas Have Fun. Not Spam. Kathrin Dentler, Nicolas Höning

The Turing Test 2

Today: Captchas • Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart • ‘reverse Turing Test’ 4

Alternatives? 6

All work and no play... • today’s approaches make users repeat themselves • approx 150,000 man hours a day • arms race (e.g. cruder letters in Captchas) leads to bad accessibility 7

Captchas will be solved • A lot are already solved • http://sam.zoy.org/pwntcha • Image recognition makes great advances 8

Captchas should ... • 1. be fun, not work • 2. not be solvable anytime soon 9

Funtcha • FUNny Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart • the idea: let a community of humans create riddles - let the people deﬁne how they want to be tested • 1. humans like surprises • 2. machines do not 10

A Funtcha • question • image • answer (1 word) 11

Usage 12

Deliver ﬁtting Funtchas • they should ﬁt the user • they should have worked before • this should cost the user minimal effort (remember: the goal is to have fun) 13

Deliver ﬁtting Funtchas • We learn how solvable a Funtcha is • Users can demand a different Funtcha (express dislike) • We use tagging to match users of websites and Funtchas 14

Database 15

Funtcha Selection • select candidates based on tag similarity • sort list according to solved/disliked ratio. give new Funtchas a chance to be highly ranked • choose one randomly out of the best n Funtchas 16

Web Interaction 17

Demo • http://funtcha.net 18

Open Issues • Accessibility: Image not a must, also Audio • Security: SSL, changing ﬁlenames, etc. • Copyrights • Human Labour • Personalisation: Creators, Websites • Numbers 19

The End • Thanks for listening. Questions? 20

http://nicolashoening.de	341
http://www.nicolashoening.de	89
http://www.slideshare.net	2
http://translate.googleusercontent.com	1
http://cc.bingj.com	1

Funtcha

by nhoening

Accessibility

Categories

Upload Details

Usage Rights

5 Embeds 434

Statistics

Funtcha Presentation Transcript