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
Microsoft 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?
Catchathons 3 hours left in the Catchathon 2021! Well it wouldn't be a Stall Catchers catchathon if there weren't a few glitches... 🤪 It seems that some people had trouble logging into the site at the beginning - but
Catchathons The Stall Catchers Catchathon is TODAY! The day is finally here! 😁 How to participate in today's Catchathon?Simply head to Stall Catchers any time between 17:00GMT (1pm ET) today (April 28) to 17:00GMT (1pm
Catchathons What's a Catchathon? (the pandemic edition) Catchathon is a catching marathon of the Stall Catchers citizen science game. Teams from all over the world join forces at the same time to catch stalls and speed up
Catchathons Long awaited... Stall Catchers Catchathon is BACK! 🥁 🤸 Tadaam! 🎉 The long awaited Stall Catchers Catchathon is BACK! Right in time to celebrate Citizen Science Month :) Catchathon is a catching marathon of the Stall Catchers citizen science game. Anyone
Research New preprint based on the "anti-VEGF" dataset from Stall Catchers! 📜 Exciting news, catchers! 😍 Another paper was just published (as a pre-print for now), based on the results YOU HELPED GENERATE! Aaaand - "Stall Catchers", meaning YOU, are in the authors
Research Another scientific paper - coauthored with catchers! 💜 Another one is out there! Earlier this we told you about the first scientific paper published with Stall Catchers data - data YOU helped generate - in Nature's Scientific Reports.
Datasets New Stall Catchers dataset: "ApoE" 🧬 There's a new dataset in Stall Catchers! This time we're dealing with "ApoE" gene. See below what that is... As many of you will know, there are certain genetic factors
Machine learning Stalls, machines and humans: an update 🤖 If we had a nickel for every time the question "why humans and not machines" has been asked in Stall Catchers history... :) Well, the reasons why humans are so much
Stall Catchers New Stall Catchers dataset: "Apocynin" 🧪 There's a new dataset in Stall Catchers - "Apocynin", and here's what it's about (straight from the "lips" from our biomedical partners at Cornell!) : In this dataset, we sought to
Stall Catchers World Alzheimer's Day challenge: full results! Thank you everyone who joined our World Alzheimer's Day challenge day yesterday, September 21. Find the full stats below! Total movies analyzed: 24 024 Total real movies analyzed: 17 340
Stall Catchers World Alzheimer's Day challenge on Stall Catchers! On September 21 - World Alzheimer's Day - the whole world comes together to do something about Alzheimer's - a disease affecting nearly 50 million people worldwide. That's, of course,
