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Stall Catchers Turns 10: Global Catchathon 🎉

Ten years ago, in October 2016, Stall Catchers launched as the first citizen science project gamified to fight Alzheimer's disease.  Since then, hundreds of thousands of catchers, of all ages and from all over the world, have taken part and powered real research along the way.  If you

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 of the camaraderie within our Human Computation Institute (HCI) team when we traveled to Denmark early last year. We are

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 Featured

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 Featured

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!

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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 leaderboard as Caprarom, visited us to celebrate our fifth anniversary and joined us on a tour

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 opportunity to speak with Roman Solovyev about his bot ZFTurbo. ZFTurbo was able to help us out quite a lot

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 able to compete once again in our most recent Bot Study. Since this Bot Study was a chance to test

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 which employees rally to volunteer their time for a cause that feels important to them.  This year, Microsoft invited Stall

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. And still - even bots themselves were just machines, they were all created by great and talented people! To get

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, so we can get a better idea of how well bots can work with humans and other bots to analyze

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 a long road toward developing the concept and finding a suitable funding partner.  This process began on February 11, 2014

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 and I am a PhD student of cultural anthropology and a master’s student of computer science at LMU Munich,

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 years of dedicated service to the Stall Catchers project, Eglė Marija Ramanauskaitė will soon be leaving

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? * Team leaderboards * Catcher leaderboards Here's an amazing video from Gulliver Prep - one of our participant schools -

Catchathons

3 hours left in the Catchathon 2021!

Well it wouldn't be a Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope] catchathon if there weren't a few glitches... 🤪 It seems that some people had trouble logging into the site at the beginning - but we fixed the issues now, and hopefully you are all able to

Catchathons

The Stall Catchers Catchathon is TODAY!

The day is finally here! 😁 How to participate in today's Catchathon? Simply head to Stall Catchers [https://blog.hcinst.org/catchathon2021-is-today/17:00GMT%20(1pm%20ET)%20April%2028%20-%2017:00GMT%20(1pm%20ET)%20April%2029] any time between 17:00GMT (1pm ET) today (April 28) to 17:

Catchathons

What's a Catchathon? (the pandemic edition)

> Catchathon is a catching marathon of the Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com] citizen science game. Teams from all over the world join forces at the same time to catch stalls and speed up Alzheimer's research! Catchathons used to be based on live meetups, held at local pubs,

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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 [https://blog.hcinst.org/whats-a-catchathon/] is a catching marathon of the Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com] citizen science game. Anyone can hold one in their local pub, school, library, hackerspace or