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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

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.

Catchathons

What's a Catchathon? (the pandemic edition)

Catchathon is a catching marathon of the Stall Catchers citizen science game. Teams from all over the world join forces at the same time to catch stalls and speed up

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

Microsoft

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

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

Stall Catchers

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

Science

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, like this

Stall Catchers

The research goal of #CrushALZ

Our #CrushALZ competition on Stall Catchers is gaining speed, and at the moment of writing this we are already 6.05% done in solving the research goal. But what does

EyesOnALZ

EyesOnALZ is 1! Here's our year in review

One year ago, in January 2016, EyesOnALZ project officially kicked off! Which is why today is double special for us - it's the beginning of the New Year AND the

Stall Catchers

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. A common, and reasonable question that we are frequently asked is "

Stall Catchers

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 it has been a month of new records, as new participants have been coming in to join our growing community! To all

Stall Catchers

Welcome to EyesOnALZ!

In case you didn't know - EyesOnALZ is a brand new citizen science project, taking on Alzheimer's disease! We have just released our first game - Stall Catchers - and