humanobserved
Humanobserved is a term used to describe observations, measurements, or data that are obtained directly through human perception, judgment, or reporting rather than by automated systems or instruments. The term emphasizes the role of human evaluators in generating the true or ground-truth reference for a given task.
The word combines "human" and "observed" to signal that the observation originates from a person. It is
In data labeling and annotation, humanobserved labels are produced by human annotators who assign categories or
Humanobserved data benefit from contextual understanding, nuance, and interpretive judgment that machines may miss. They can
Related ideas include ground truth, human-in-the-loop, manual annotation, and crowdsourcing. Ensuring quality often involves calibration, inter-annotator
Ground truth, data annotation, crowdsourcing, inter-annotator reliability, annotation protocols.