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Stall Catchers

Anyone can play Stall Catchers to help speed up Alzheimer's research

Game Solutions Lab · com.gamesolutionslab.stallcatchers

Not rated yet 1K+ downloads v1.0.1 5.4 MB Android 4.4+ PEGI 3 · Everyone

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At a glance

Latest version
v1.0.1 (10001)
Updated
Jun 9, 2024 (2 years ago)
APK size
5.4 MB
Requires
Android 4.4+ (API 19)
CPU support
Any (no native code)
Category
Educational (game)
Listed since
Nov 28, 2021 (at least)
Permissions
22
Website
stallcatchers.com
Developer contact
[email protected]
Privacy
Developer's privacy policy

About this APK

Stall Catchers is a game by Game Solutions Lab in the Educational category, listed since at least November 2021. It has no native code, so it runs on any Android processor.

It asks for 22 permissions, none of them sensitive.

What's new in v1.0.1

Catch stalls!

Description

From the listing uploaded by “appupdater”.

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.

Security & authenticity

Security rating: Trusted

Signing certificate

  • Certificate issued to “GameSolutionsLab” The developer's name — though anyone can put any name in a certificate.

Store checks and file details

  • Developer signature verified Jun 9, 2024
  • Signed byL=Eindhoven, O=GameSolutionsLab, OU=GameSolutionsLab, CN=Tom Vaessen
  • Signing certificate (SHA-1)32:97:EA:1D:F8:55:6C:6B:6F:02:B5:0A:2C:CF:02:27:B0:82:0F:0E
  • File MD573df57ee3db410f66cc3113a193b34f4
  • Uploaded by “appupdater” Gold tier · 117,810 followers · uploading since 2020

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Permissions (22)

Stall Catchers requests 22 permissions, none of them sensitive.

Required hardware & features

Stall Catchers APK: questions and answers

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