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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
Datasets New Stall Catchers dataset: "Structural mapping" 🧠 In record time here comes a fresh new dataset! 😀 As some of you catchers have guessed already, this one is going deeper into the brain to look for stalls. Here's
Research The first scientific articles using Stall Catchers data are in the works! Some of you might have received the good news in the mail already... And if you've helped analyze the datasets, you're on the list of authors! 💜 There are THREE scientific
Stall Catchers New dataset: 5XFAD Jr. There's a new dataset in Stall Catchers! Or, to quote one of our most prolific catchers of late, KarisFraMauro, "life is bearable again!" 😅 In this dataset, we are again looking
Stall Catchers New Stall Catchers dataset: 5XFAD Finally, more data in Stall Catchers - and it's continuing the NOX2 saga. (Read the backstory of NOX2 here: https://blog.hcinst.org/nox-vol2/ In this set, we are analyzing
Stall Catchers 📹 Stall Catchers research update (January 2020) What's been cooking in the lab where the biomedical science of Stall Catchers happens? What have we already achieved, what's next, and what challenges are we currently facing? (And how YOU could help overcome them!) Find out all in this fresh new update video
Stall Catchers New dataset in Stall Catchers: "NOX: Vol 2"! Long awaited, there's a fresh new dataset in Stall Catchers: "NOX: Vol 2" ! Sounds familiar? Yep, we've already worked on a dataset called "NOX" before (hence "Vol 2", haha) ! You
Stall Catchers Another dataset complete in Stall Catchers - for a question you raised yourselves! 🐁 We recently completed another (rather quick!) dataset in Stall Catchers, and here I am to tell you all about it... This time it was... the Running dataset! What was the
Events Alzheimer's Day hangout with the scientists & the community of Stall Catchers! This Saturday, September 21st is World Alzheimer's Day. For this occasion, we are organizing a very special hangout / community call with our scientists and, well -- YOU! Tune in at
Stall Catchers The human/machine partnership solving Alzheimer's disease 📹 How do we combine the best of humans and machines in Stall Catchers - the game crowdsourcing Alzheimer's disease? It took lots of exploration of the existing machine learning algorithms, calibration of crowd wisdom algorithms, and combination of the two in the best possible
Science Research update: the datasets you've helped analyze so far in Stall Catchers 🔎🐁 Can you believe it?! So far in Stall Catchers you've helped us analyze six datasets (and that's not counting the validation ones!), and we're currently on our seventh!! Each dataset
Science The "anti-VEGF" dataset now in Stall Catchers 🔬 A couple of weeks ago, after completing the "Long Term" dataset (see report here) we uploaded new data to Stall Catchers dealing with the VEGF molecule. Read all
Datasets The Long Term dataset Next in Stall Catchers we are working on the "Long Term" dataset. With the "Long Term" dataset we are seeking to understand how late into disease development an increase in brain blood flow, due to a decrease in capillary stalling,
Science The "Hypertension" dataset is complete! Here's the full report... Fanfares 🎺 Another datase is complete in Stall Catchers! This time we are looking to find out if high blood pressure affects the rate of stalls in Alzheimer's mice. See the
Megathon Early peek at the #Megathon research result 📈 📊 As you know, as of Monday this week, we completed the first pass of the Megathon dataset analysis, which allows us to take a peek at your answers and, as
Stall Catchers 🎥 Lecture: the role of reduced blood flow in Alzheimer's & the Stall Catchers game Last Friday, Pietro gave a talk at Cornell University alongside our biomedical collaborators Nozomi & Chris. The lecture covers the aspects of the science behind Stall Catchers, i.e. the role of stalls and reduced blood flow in the brain in Alzheimer's, as well