Join the CitSci Med Blitz!
Join Cochrane Crowd, Mark2Cure and Stall Catchers for the CitSciMed Blitz. Together we can speed up medical research and make a difference. Starting with a Webinar: The CitSciMed Blitz starts on Wednesday the 21st of […]
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Design approach in citizen science games, until EVE Online and Project Discovery
In my first post, I introduced briefly a collection of games that let players contribute to science. They are called citizen science games. They are a collaboration between players and scientists to solve real scientific […]
Online game turns web users of all ages into Alzheimer’s fighters
Thousands of internet users, of all ages, are playing an online game all around the world to help researchers fast track the fight against the Alzheimer’s disease. Stall Catchers, launched nearly a year ago, has […]
Sea Hero Quest, now in Virtual Reality
Players can help scientists fight dementia, in Virtual Reality Alzheimer’s Research UK has teamed up with Deutsche Telekom to release Sea Hero Quest in Virtual Reality (VR). The game, in which players help scientists understand […]
Gene editing technologies smarter and safer with EteRNA
Eterna just announced the launch of #opencrispr. CRISPR is a genome editing technology used for therapeutics and molecular medicine. Players will help discover principles and RNA molecules that could turn CRISPR on and off, and […]
Project Discovery: Lessons From Scientific Research in EVE Online
In the GDC 2017 talk, MMOS Srl’s Attila Szantner and CCP’s Bergur Finnbogason tell the story of how citizen science project Project Discovery and how EVE Online players generated over 20 million protein location classifications, […]