TurKit: Tools for iterative tasks on mechanical turk

Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is an increasingly popular web service for paying people small rewards to do human computation tasks. Current uses of MTurk typically post independent parallel tasks. I am exploring an alternative iterative paradigm, in which workers build on or evaluate each other's work. Part of my proposal is a toolkit called TurKit which facilitates deployment of iterative tasks on MTurk. I want to explore using this technology as a new form of end-user programming, where end-users are writing “programs” that are really instructions executed by humans on MTurk.