Posts Tagged by gamification
Gaming towards cultural enrichment
| September 27, 2011 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Gamification |
It’s not every day I think to myself, “Gee, I wish I spoke Finnish so I could help translate some 19th century Finnish newspapers.” Then again, it’s not every day that somebody makes a game out of doing so. A joint project between the National Library of Finland and distributed work expert Microtask, Digitalkoot does just that. While automatic text recognition has done…
Gamers,1. AIDS protein, 0.
| September 20, 2011 | Posted by Sophy Bot under Gamification, Science news |
It took a decade of struggling with the structure of an enzyme produced by an AIDS-like virus before scientists threw the problem to the online gamers. It took the gamers only three weeks to solve it. Produced by the University of Washington in 2008, Foldit is an online video game where players compete to unfold chains of amino acids. When the enzyme from…
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