In an earlier blog post I talked about how we turned over 150,000 people around the world into quantum physicists by giving them access to a fun online game, Quantum Moves. By playing Quantum Moves, […]
This adventure started in 2013, in a small office in Brighton (UK). I was doing some research on free to play, casual browser games. After having compiled a huge list of these online games, I was about to try them. Everything was going smoothly, I had finished sowing a few seeds and harvesting some trees in Farmerama and I was about to move to the next game on the list: Foldit […]
Citizen Science is something I’ve been interested in for a few years — there’s some great opportunities to create games that create actual impact in the world, while also educating the general public in scientific principles and […]
In April 2016 we published an article called “Exploring the quantum speed limit with computer games” in the science journal Nature. I personally think that anyone who is curious about the cognitive limits of the […]
Global neuroscience projects are producing big data at an unprecedented rate that informatic and artificial intelligence (AI) analytics simply cannot handle. Online games, like Foldit, Eterna, and Eyewire and now a new neuroscience game, Mozak—are fueling a people-powered research science (PPRS) revolution, […]
Games, Science, and Citizen Science: An interview with Vito Servedio, Institute of Complex Systems The Citizen Science Association is re-energizing a series of interviews with citizen scientists and citizen science enthusiasts. This month, Çiğdem Adem […]
Citizen Science Games 2019