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The physical constraints of smartwatches limit the range and complexity of tasks that can be completed. Despite interface improvements on smartwatches, the promise of enabling pro ductive work remains largely unrealized. This paper presents WearWrite, a system that enables users to write documents from their smartwatches by leveraging a crowd to help trans late their ideas into text. WearWrite users dictate tasks, re spond to questions, and receive notifications of major edits on their watch. Using a dynamic task queue, the crowd re ceives tasks issued by the watch user and generic tasks from the system. In a week-long study with seven smartwatch users supported by approximately 29 crowd workers each, we val idate that it is possible to manage the crowd writing process from a watch. Watch users captured new ideas as they came to mind and managed a crowd during spare moments while go ing about their daily routine. WearWrite represents a new ap proach to getting work done from wearables using the crowd.

We present an approach for the lightweight development of web information systems based on the idea of involving crowds in the underlying engineering and design processes. Our approach is designed to support developers as well as non-technical end-users in composing data-driven web interfaces in a plug-n-play manner. To enable this, we introduce the notion of crowdsourced web site components whose design can gradually evolve as they get associated with more data and functionality contributed by the crowd. Hence, required components must not necessarily pre-exist or be developed by the application designer alone, but can also be created on-demand by publishing an open call to the crowd that may in response provide multiple alternative solutions. The potential of the approach is illustrated based on two initial experiments.

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