Interviews - Human Computation Institute Blogs

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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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📹 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

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"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

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"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

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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/

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"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

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📻 Stall Catchers #Megathon & Citizen Science Day on Science Friday!

Stall Catchers & the Megathon were featured on Science Friday radio show today!! 🤩 Catch up on the segment, featuring our own Pietro Michelucci and Chris Schaffer, here: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Handy Megathon resources: * Megathon info & sign up: megathon.us [http://megathon.us] * Citizen Science Day resources [https://scistarter.org/citizen-science-day] * * "

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Goofy and inspiring... interview with Stall Catchers superuser Badstallsbadbad ! 😜 🖤

As promised..! We ambushed and interrogated, oops I mean - interviewed our Family & Friends tournament [https://blog.eyesonalz.com/family-friends-tournament-final-results/] champion, and a recently emerged supercatcher who won't let almost anyone else to the top of the Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/virtualMicroscope] leaderboards anymore... Badstallsbadbad ! -----------------

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What does it take to become a vessel expert in Stall Catchers? Interview with our rock star Torie! ♥

Why can't Cornell University researchers do their work Alzheimer's research work effectively without the help of citizen scientists? What does it take to become an expert in recognizing stalls? Interview with Victorine (Torie) Muse -- the rock star of Stall Catchers and a former Master'

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Stall Catchers doesn't just speed up research -- it enables it! Interview with Prof. Nozomi Nishimura

Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/] doesn't just speed up the research at Cornell University - it enables researchers to ask questions that they haven't been able to ask before. Wonderfully explained in this interview with our collaborator, Prof. Nozomi Nishimura: Help us do new kinds of

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🎥 Interview with super catcher Guy Calkins

One of our super catchers, Guy Calkins (you might have noticed him at the top of the leaderboards as gcalkins!) has visited the Schaffer-Nishimura Lab recently, and met the scientists doing the biomedical research behind Stall Catchers, as well as our project lead, Pietro. Among learning more about the work

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Where does the research behind Stall Catchers happen? Interview with Prof. Chris Schaffer

In Stall Catchers [https://stallcatchers.com/], you - our volunteer catchers - are analyzing movies from a mouse brain, looking for stalled blood vessels. But where do these "movies" come from? Who are our biomedical collaborators doing this research? Why are they so interested, and how does this