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!
Catchathons 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
Stall Catchers Meet the bot authors - Kirill Brodt and his bot “Clsc2”! Onto the next! We will be interviewing another one of our “Bot Makers” in this second installment of our three part series. In the last blog post, we had the
Stall Catchers Meet the bot authors - Laura Onac and her bot “GAIA” And GAIA makes three! Some of you might remember Laura Onac’s bot, GAIA, as she was the first bot EVER to play Stall Catchers. Wow, time flies! GAIA was
Catchathons Microsoft’s annual Giving Campaign - a time of year when volunteering blooms Last month alone, the Stall Catchers community grew by 1,167 new catchers! And there’s a great reason for this - October is Microsoft’s annual Giving Campaign, during
Stall Catchers Meet the bot authors - Roman Solovyev and his bot “ZFTurbo”! The Bot study in Stall Catchers just ended. We have already discussed bots so much. Players constantly saw bot names on the leaderboard. And the bots analyzed so much data.
Bots, that are going to play Stall Catchers along humans Just as the GAIA catcher bot participated in the 2021 International Catchathon, for the next dataset, GAIA will be accompanied by two new catcher bots to help do the analysis,
Stall Catchers turns 5! Though the public launch of Stall Catchers on October 1, 2016 may seem like the beginning of the project to many catchers, for me it was also the end of
The Humans of Stall Catchers Hello from Libuše! Hi everyone! After having been around the Human Computation Institute for more than a year, we thought it would be high time for a proper introduction! My name is Libuše
Stall Catchers Farewell, Eglė (No, she's not dead - she's just leaving.) It is with some measure of disbelief and a great sense of loss that I must convey the news that, after five
Catchathons Catchathon 2021: Full report! Thank you ALL for joining us in the Catchathon 2021! 😊 We had a blast!! Did you?! :) Jump to: Overall stats Final hour The Winners Participant impressions How did GAIA 🤖 do?
