Microsoft A Record-Breaking Month of Volunteerism: Microsoft's Annual Giving Campaign 2023! Grateful for Every Click – How Microsoft volunteers gave Alzheimer's research a huge boost through Stall Catchers
Science The mind behind Alzheimer’s disease and a look into his lab Wait, the Human Computation Institute team was in Germany?? Yes! We found ourselves in the city of Munich for the Hybrid Human Artificial Intelligence Conference to gather ideas and feedback
Science The PLX dataset: what is the role of microglia in dementia risk? What do microglia have to do with dementia risk? That’s the question you are helping to answer when you analyze the current dataset in Stall Catchers.
Alzheimers Stroke data in Stall Catchers! It turns out that we can use Stall Catchers not only for Alzheimer's research, but also for stroke research! And if you're familiar with Stall Catchers, you might notice that
Conferences What is Gamification and How Does it Affect Us? Why You're ACTUALLY Addicted to Your Phone Gamification is all around us and I bet you'd be able to find an example of it in your own life.
Catchathons Catchathon 2023 Results are in!!🎉 We have completed over 2/3rds of the dataset as of this blog post, which is AMAZING! Thank you to everyone who took part in this Catchathon. We can’t wait for the next one!
Catchathons Catchathon 2023: HUGE Thank You to Everyone! Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who joined this years Catchathon, it was a blast playing with you all!
Catchathons The competition is heating up in the last full day of the Catchathon Originally it took us about a month to complete the dataset, but you amazing humans have cut that time in half! But it’s not over yet, and there are many more stalls to catch.
Catchathons Check the Live Leaderboard for true dataset progress! We found that the progress bar in the VM is misbehaving, so pay attention to the progress bar on the Live Leaderboard
Catchathons Double Points Schedule! As we promised you at the Kick-off, here is the double points schedule for the week.
Catchathons Check the agenda for our 2023 International #catchathon !🤩 Even though you can participate in Stall Catchers anytime, join us for a special one-week long event!
Catchathons Call your teammates... Stall Catchers Catchathon is back! We are excited to invite you to the Stall Catchers Annual International Catchathon 2023, partnering with SciStarter and celebrating Citizen Science Month!
Stall Catchers The First Annual “Stalling Summit” What happens when world class Alzheimer’s researchers and stroke researchers put their heads together to help each other? Among other things, they turn to Stall Catchers with some new
Science We are looking for volunteers! Join the Beta Catchers beta-test Join our Beta-test (no pun intended) by playing our new citizen science game to speed up Alzheimer's research. The first 100 participants to complete the study and answer a short survey will receive an Amazon gift card.
HCI Convergence: So What Happened?? As we reflect on the winter festivities here in Ithaca, we think of the closeness of family and friends this time of year. The warmth of these connections reminds us
Catchathons Girl power and patches: our first Girl Scout Catch-a-Thon This year, for the first time, Stall Catchers joined the global event with our first ever USAGSO Catch-A-Thon!
Microsoft Microsoft's Volunteers, it's a wrap! What are you grateful for this Thanksgiving? We’re thankful for the Microsoft Giving Campaign!
Datasets Back to the lab: Daniel Rivera describes to us the behind the scenes of the PSGL-1 dataset at the Schaffer-Nishimura Lab 🔬 Daniel Rivera, one of the researchers, took the time to explain to us more about what this particular research question is all about and how he captured the videos analyzed in Stall Catchers.
Challenges Double Points for Alzheimer's Awareness Month In recognition of Alzheimer's Awareness Month (September 2022), we are doubling points in Stall Catchers for NINE one-hour time slots during the last three days of the month.
Datasets Sickle Cell data in Stall Catchers?? For the first time, Stall Catchers is accelerating Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) research, so we asked scientist Nancy Ruiz to explain what this is all about.
Datasets Could an arthritis drug be used to treat Alzheimer’s? 👀 We have a new dataset for you and it's not just any dataset... PSGL-1 is our first dataset in Stall Catchers looking at the effects of a FDA approved drug in the treatment of Alzheimer's.
Science Libuše's poster won! A look at how human computation systems align in citizen science In "Assembling spheres: Aligning human computation systems in citizen science", Libuše analyzed Human Computation-based citizen science projects, such as Stall Catchers, as continuously evolving projects.
hciconvergence A (new) star is born: Pietro's rap for AI ethics In March Pietro's career took a 180° turn when he released his first hit "Rapping for AI ethics". What started as an academic presentation became an unexpected milestone in the history of American music. Here, Pietro gives us his first interview as a star.
hciconvergence HCI convergence: know our calendar for citizen science month We are happy to share with you our April activities, an itinerary that will have us traveling from different parts of the world... and you can join us too!
About Caprarom visited us in the lab… and so can you! Ok, so we can't invite all 40,000 catchers to meet us at the office, but we wanted to show you around. Mike Capraro, whom you may know from the
