Games, Science, and Citizen Science: Vito Servedio’s interview on citizenscience.org

September 22, 2016

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 […]

Quantum Moves: Exploring the quantum speed limit with computer games

April 14, 2016

Humans routinely solve problems of immense computational complexity by intuitively forming simple, low-dimensional heuristic strategies. Citizen science (or crowd sourcing) is a way of exploiting this ability by presenting scientific research problems to non-experts. ‘ […]

Quantum Moves: Physicists are building a quantum computer by studying how people play this odd puzzle game

April 14, 2016

What do physicists do when they can’t solve a bunch of complicated problems in quantum mechanics? They give the task to gamers. Danish physicists and researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark have developed a new […]

Quantum Moves: The Video Game Creating Quantum Physics Breakthroughs

April 13, 2016

​The algorithm drawn from the minds of gamers is doing what supercomputers cannot. It’s a new, incredibly powerful tool for quantum physics. And it’s tucked away inside the brains of video gamers. A team of […]

Quantum Moves: Games as a Platform for Student Participation in Authentic Scientific Research

November 5, 2015

This paper presents results from the design and testing of an educational version of Quantum Moves, a Scientific Discovery Game that allows players to help solve authentic scientific challenges in the effort to develop a […]

Quantum Moves: Quantum Leaps of Imagination

December 10, 2014

Quantum Moves: Quantum Leaps of Imagination Today, we have a guest post from Pinja Haikka of the ScienceAtHome group. If you haven’t tried one of their games yet, you should! Quantum Moves, the first citizen […]

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