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Reflections from the Human Computation Institute Team about the Citizen Science for Health 2025 Conference

Photo caption for featured image: The Human Computation Institute team in Stoos, Switzerland, before the conference — taking in mountain air and big ideas. From left: Ravish Dussaruth, Gretė Vaičaitytė, Caroline Nickerson, Maggie Lane, Luca Michelucci, Pietro Michelucci -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why we went to Zurich At the Human Computation Institute (HCI) [https:

Research

Survey: Northeastern University researchers need your input! :)

Northeastern University researchers are conducting a survey to learn about how to make better citizen science games. To take this survey, visit https://forms.gle/QaFFsNwcwTVYqiPQA. The results will be shared back with us, and we are keen to see how, in your opinion, we could improve the game, how

The Humans of Stall Catchers

The Humans of Human Computation Institute: Percy - our new developer!

As some of you may know, our developer Ieva [https://blog.hcinst.org/hidden-figures-ieva/] , who's been with us since the beginning of Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com], has recently left us, and we've been struggling to "make ends meet"! Fortunately though, we found a

Stall Catchers Featured

📹 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 by Pietro

Stall Catchers

Happy New Year, Catchers! 🎉

🥁 ... and, thanks largely to our super star catcher Badstallsbadbad, we have a blood vessel alphabet!!! (see this post [https://blog.hcinst.org/spelling-challenge/] for context and what we're trying to do with it... 😇) Check out or alphabet-in-the-making on the forum here [http://forum.hcinst.org/t/spelling-challenge-we-want-to-create-a-vessel-alphabet/670/

Stall Catchers

Spelling challenge! Can we spell "Happy New Year" with vessels?

Happy Holidays, dear Catchers! 🎉 We know things have been a little quiet in Stall Catchers, and you've been itching for a challenge... Well here I am to give you one! 😃 Perhaps a little different than usual... a spelling challenge! Yes, you heard that right. We'd like

Stall Catchers

New dataset in Stall Catchers: "NOX: Vol 2"!

Long awaited, there's a fresh new dataset in Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope]: "NOX: Vol 2" ! Sounds familiar? Yep, we've already worked on a dataset called "NOX" before (hence "Vol 2", haha) ! You can read all about the previous

Stall Catchers

Another dataset complete in Stall Catchers - for a question you raised yourselves! 🐁

We recently completed another (rather quick!) dataset in Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com], and here I am to tell you all about it... This time it was... the Running dataset! What was the research question and where did it come from? According to one of our main biomedical collaborators on

Dream Catchers

Early peek at the #Dreamathon research results 📈 📊

We just took a first peek at the image labels you provided during the Dreamathon and wanted to circle back with some preliminary results! But first, some participation stats... 259 volunteers from around the U.S. and beyond participated in the inaugural Dreamathon by playing Dream Catchers [https://dreamcatchers.app]

Microsoft Featured

Stall Catchers had a baby! 👶🏿 Introducing: Dream Catchers

Yes, you heard that right! Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope], a citizen science game tackling Alzheimer's disease, just had a spin-off, called Dream Catchers [https://dreamcatchers.app/virtualMicroscope]! Dream Catchers is very similar to its predecessor... but it's tackling SIDS - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

EyesOnALZ

📝 We are retiring the "EyesOnALZ" brand - it's all Stall Catchers now!

Hey there, the loyal catcher community! We have some news :) For a while now we've been working with two brands "EyesOnALZ" and "Stall Catchers", the former being the name for the project here at the Human Computation Institute, tackling Alzheimer's disease, and

Stall Catchers

📹 Stall Catchers community hangout - World Alzheimer's Day 2019

Thank you to everyone who join our first community hangout on World Alzheimer's Day last Saturday, and all the awesome questions! Here's the recording of the "eye-opening" chat we had (with tons of science of Stall Catchers!) :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [https://stallcatchers.com] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [info@stallcatchers.

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 3pm ET / 12pm PT / 7pm UTC on Saturday (Sep 21) to speak with our scientists and... ask

Microsoft

The human/machine partnership solving Alzheimer's disease 📹

How do we combine the best of humans and machines in Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com] - 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 way.

Science

Research update: the datasets you've helped analyze so far in Stall Catchers 🔎🐁

Can you believe it?! So far in Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope] you've helped us analyze six datasets (and that's not counting the validation [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/why-is-validation-important/] ones!), and we're currently on our seventh!! Each dataset could take up to a

Stall Catchers

Improved speeds in Stall Catchers! Here's how and why...

Anyone who has played Stall Catchers [https://StallCatchers.com] recently might have noticed things slowing down. And thank goodness you told us, because that gave us a chance to fix it! It’s now running about 5x faster than a week ago, so if you haven’t played in a

Science

The "anti-VEGF" dataset now in Stall Catchers 🔬

A couple of weeks ago, after completing the "Long Term" dataset (see report here [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/hypertension-dataset-report/#long-term]) we uploaded new data to Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope] dealing with the VEGF molecule. Read all about it below... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is "anti-VEGF" &

The Longest Day

Play Stall Catchers on #TheLongestDay 💜

It's that time of the year again, and we're inviting you to celebrate The Longest Day by playing a game to speed up Alzheimer's disease -- Stall Catchers [http://bit.ly/StallCatchersENDAlz]! Play Stall Catchers on The Longest Day! [http://bit.ly/StallCatchersENDAlz] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Longest Day

“This Is Our Life” Community Goes Purple To #ENDAlz this Saturday - special challenge! 💜

Our beloved "This Is Our Life" community (rooted in Watertown, MA, but open to absolutely everyone everywhere!) is Going Purple again this Saturday to celebrate The Longest Day and raise funds to end Alzheimer's disease. We're joining along and Going Purple with a special

The Longest Day

Lexington Goes Purple for The Longest Day today, with Stall Catchers! 💜

Lexington, MA, are painting the town purple today to raise awareness and funds to end Alzheimer's disease. Aaaaand.... among other activities, they're doing Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com]! We'll have a special challenge on in the game from 3.30 to 4.30pm ET

Datasets

The Long Term dataset

Next in Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com] 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, still leads to

Science

The "Hypertension" dataset is complete! Here's the full report...

Fanfares 🎺 Another datase is complete in Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com]! This time we are looking to find out if high blood pressure affects the rate of stalls in Alzheimer's mice. See the full dataset report below! P.S. the official research result will come later, after the

The Humans of Stall Catchers

"I DO BELIEVE we will be able to learn enough about Alzheimer's" - the story of catcher John (chairstar) 💜

Next in the series of "the Humans of Stall Catchers" is John, or chairstar / chairflyer as he is known in Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope], and our forum [http://forum.eyesonalz.com/]. 😊 Here is his letter below: 💜 > Dear Stall Catchers, > First, please allow me to

The Humans of Stall Catchers

"Curing Alzheimer’s is very personal to me" - a letter from supercatcher & caregiver Sheryl 💜

> Hi, I am sachambers. > I am a Stall Catcher. My mother has Alzheimer’s. > I am the mother of two grown children, and I find that taking care of Mom has many similarities to taking care of young children. They need someone to keep them safe and

Megathon

April Megathon update on Alzheimer's Speaks Radio with Lori La Bey 📻

Catch up on last week's Alzheimer' Speaks Radio [http://www.alzheimersspeaks.com/] episode, featuring our own Pietro with an update on all things achieved -- with YOUR HELP -- during our mega Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com] event in April -- The Megathon [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/

The Humans of Stall Catchers

"If I can do this, anyone can, and we need all the help we can get!" -- interview with supercatcher Carol aka Mema! 👩 🔬

As you may know from our Humans of Stall Catchers [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/tag/the-humans-of-stall-catchers/] series here on this blog, we LOVE hearing from our catchers, and learning more about them!! Today I present an interview with Carol -- known as Carol aka Mema by other catchers, a veteran