Human Computation Institute

Can you help us, fellow Ithacan? 😌

This week featured , our app meant to help Ithacans make informed choices about where to go 📍 for things like dining out or grocery shopping.

“We’ve changed our minds about when to go based on the app. We’ve been avoiding crowds, partly because of COVID but also just to avoid the gong show that happens when too many Ithacans go to the same place at the same time”, users reported. 📰

Check the article (and download the app) here!
https://www.tompkinsweekly.com/articles/ithaca-based-app-addresses-covid-19-transmission/

So, what is 🤖🤔

Our team had a meeting with the Center for Hybrid Intelligence from Aarhus Universitet to discuss possibilities and ethical challenges in developing models that put humans at the center when interacting with machines.

Thanks for having us!

Wondering where the images from Stall Catchers come from? 🤔 Check out the Schaffer Nishimura Lab Tour! 🔬 Part three. https://youtu.be/qQbY_QQPvl4

So grateful and humbled by “super catcher” volunteers caprarom and CarolakaMema who have been recognized by SciStarter as their top contributors for 2021. They support and inspire us on Stall Catchers every day 🙏

Meet SciStarter's Top Citizen Scientists | SciStarter Blog Thousands contributed to citizen science projects on SciStarter last year. But some people logged hundreds of thousands of contributions by themselves.

Still wondering about the humans behind the Stall Catchers bots? 🤖
Meet Laura Onac - the author of GAIA and one of the winners of the clog loss challenge! 🏆
She is a graduate student about to complete her master’s program in Applied Computational Intelligence. Laura has been working as a Machine Learning Engineer for the past two years. She is experienced in solving natural language processing and computer vision tasks using machine learning. 💻

https://blog.hcinst.org/meet-the-bot-authors-laura-onac-and-her-bot-gaia/?fbclid=IwAR1iXF8_X1Ho_5w8cpFtyUcAFxnJglTTuqZ-tgA0bli7EmUUihD6mNO2Dr8

Meet the bot authors - Laura Onac and her bot “GAIA” And GAIA makes three! Some of you might remember Laura Onac’s bot, GAIA, as she was the first bot EVER to play Stall Catchers. Wow, time flies! GAIA was able to compete once again in our most recent Bot Study. Since this Bot Study was a chance to test what human and bot catchers could accomplish t...

We are excited to share the great news!🤩

Alzheimers.gov is now available in Spanish! The site is designed to help educate and support people whose lives are touched by Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Whether you are living with dementia or are a family member, health professional, researcher, or advocate, this site is for you: https://www.alzheimers.gov/es