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Caprarom visited us in the lab… and so can you!

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

Meet the bot authors - Roman Solovyev and his bot “ZFTurbo”!

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

What's a Catchathon? (the pandemic edition)

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,

📝 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

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.

*Catcher*-centered design - how the community is shaping Stall Catchers

Catcher-centered design - how the community is shaping Stall Catchers

Recently, our colleagues at UCL asked us for examples on how we have used user feedback in shaping our project and our game - Stall Catchers. Well, I think it's safe to say they probably regret asking, because the list we gave them was looong! 😜 We're

New video about Stall Catchers!

As you may have noticed, we launched a revamped version of the Stall Catchers landing page last week! And for it - as well as to celebrate Stall Catchers of course - Vika [https://www.instagram.com/vi.zo/] (our social media manager & an amazing video artist + photographer), created

We're looking for an "effective treatment" for Alzheimer's. What does that mean?

We're looking for an "effective treatment" for Alzheimer's. What does that mean?

What do we mean by "Effective Treatment"? I was talking with EyesOnALZ colleague Lisa Gusman today, who has created some amazing educational videos for Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com], like this one: She aptly pointed out that when we talk about goals and expectations for Stall Catchers [http:

The research goal of #CrushALZ

The research goal of #CrushALZ

Our #CrushALZ competition [http://blog.eyesonalz.com/crushalz-begins-now] on Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com] is gaining speed, and at the moment of writing this we are already 6.05% done in solving the research goal. But what does that mean? We uploaded a new dataset to Stall Catchers for the

EyesOnALZ is 1! Here's our year in review

EyesOnALZ is 1! Here's our year in review

One year ago, in January 2016, EyesOnALZ [http://eyesonalz.com/] project officially kicked off! Which is why today is double special for us - it's the beginning of the New Year AND the first Birthday of EyesOnALZ 😊🎆🎁 We prepared a detailed overview of our year for this special

Why aren't we using machines instead of humans to catch stalls?

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Why aren't we using machines instead of humans to catch stalls?

Updated, 26 Dec 2018: This issue does not stand still! For most recent updates, see this forum thread [http://forum.eyesonalz.com/t/why-arent-we-using-machines-instead-of-humans-to-catch-stalls/518] . -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A common, and reasonable question that we are frequently asked is "why are you asking people to annotate blood vessels instead of just

National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month

November - National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month and National Family Caregivers Month is just about halfway through. For us at Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com/] it has been a month of new records, as new participants have been coming in to join our growing community! To all of

Welcome to EyesOnALZ!

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Welcome to EyesOnALZ!

In case you didn't know - EyesOnALZ [http://eyesonalz.com/] is a brand new citizen science project, taking on Alzheimer's disease! We have just released our first game - Stall Catchers [http://stallcatchers.com/] - and we are ready to get this party started! Anyone can