Slide to X: Unlocking the Potential of Smartphone Unlocking

• unlock gestures performed by billions daily, and it is shown that people are willing to perform microtasks presented during unlock
• the most interesting part of this is the user study
• $20/week on average translated to $0.026/question
• users are willing to perform microtasks correctly 81% of the time, when incentivized by money or self-interest
• it may be useful to track which questions users tend to ignore and which they find interesting
• how intensive a question are users willing to answer