Foldit Standalone is an interactive graphical interface to the Rosetta molecular modeling package. In contrast to most command-line or batch interactions with Rosetta, Foldit Standalone is designed to allow easy, real-time, direct manipulation of protein […]
Citizen science has enormous potential, and Mark2Cure and the Cochrane Crowd’s volunteers are helping explore its application towards biomedical discovery. Cochrane Crowd and Mark2Cure will be hosting a webinar on May 8th and there will […]
Scientists are searching for a cure for Alzheimer’s disease and we can help hands-on. Together with collaborators at Cornell, Berkeley, and Princeton, and with support from the BrightFocus Foundation, the Human Computation Institute has created […]
Over the past decade there has been a rapid increase in the number of citizen science projects. Citizen science is now an accepted term for a range of practices that involve members of the general […]
Abstract: In this paper we investigate the implications of providing a real-time messaging interface in a Web-based citizen science game. Our study draws on data from two weeks of chat messages and survey responses collected […]
The Crowd & The Cloud is a TV series focusing on the power of “Citizen Science in the Digital Age,” with examples of projects that range from how crowdsourcing is speeding up Alzheimer’s research to […]
Citizen Science Games 2019