Anyone can play Stall Catchers to help speed up Alzheimer's research
1,000+ downloads
About Stall Catchers
Stall Catchers is an educational app developed by Games for Health.
How many times has Stall Catchers been downloaded?
Stall Catchers has been downloaded 2.2 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 0 times.
What is the rating of Stall Catchers?
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Is Stall Catchers free?
Stall Catchers is free to download. The APK download size is 5.38 MB. The latest version available is 1.0.1. The last update was on September 17, 2018.
What are the requirements for Stall Catchers?
Stall Catchers requires Android 4.4+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play September 2018.
Description
Stall Catchers is an online game that anyone can play - no experience necessary. In the game, you look at movies from the brains of mice and try to identify vessels as flowing or stalled. This helps to speed up Alzheimer's disease research at Cornell University.
Stall Catchers is part of the EyesOnALZ project. The game was built on one of the oldest volunteer thinking projects: stardust@home, and is using the Virtual Microscope developed by their team. Who knew stardust and blood vessels could be so similar?
Currently, our catchers range from 6 to 88 years old. A large part of our community includes middle school students, seniors, caregivers and Alzheimer’s patients themselves.
The game is easy to grasp, and we walk you through in the beginning. Check out the 'How to' section in the main menu if you need help at any time. Don't worry about making mistakes - each blood vessel is analysed by multiple catchers, and we ensure we generate reliable crowd answers in the end.
EyesOnALZ is a citizen science project developed by the Human Computation Institute. The project enables everyone to contribute to Alzheimer’s disease research and speed up the search for a treatment. Our first citizen science game - Stall Catchers - was launched in October 2016 and now gathers thousands of volunteers.
The idea was born in 2015, when by a lucky coincidence, Pietro Michelucci met Chris Schaffer, whose lab was in need of citizen scientists’ help. The project was funded by the BrightFocus Foundation and officially began in early 2016.
EyesOnALZ includes collaborators from the Schaffer-Nishimura Lab at Cornell University, stardust@home team at U.C. Berkeley and SciStarter.com. Previous collaborators include Sebastian Seung’s Laboratory at Princeton University, WiredDifferently and others.
EyesOnALZ and Stall Catchers are being developed by the Human Computation Institute, and supported by a team of collaborators, advisors and volunteers from Cornell University, UC Berkeley, SciStarter, and elsewhere worldwide.
The EyesOnALZ Android app is being developed for Human Computation Institute in partnership with Games For Health Europe by Game Solutions Lab.
EyesOnALZ is supported by the BrightFocus foundation and its generous donors. Learn more about their Alzheimer's Disease Research Program.
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★★★★★
By playing this you're helping with scientific research!!!
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Love this, teaching the STEAM classes in our county to do this and compete to get more people playing, and it is positive and saving lives not the opposite.
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