We at Carnegie Mellon are interested in how you play Foldit. To learn more about your interaction with the game, we are looking for volunteers to participate in user studies during which we can watch you play Fold.It. If you are interested, please contact us at ndfishel@gmail.com. If you are not located in the Pittsburgh area, we can set up screen sharing. Happy Folding! :-)
According to the Credits screen, and everything I've read about this, it's a University of Washington enterprise "This game is a product of a collaboration between University of Washington Departments of Computer Science & Engineering and Biochemistry." , eseentially an offshoot of the Rosetta reasearch done by the Baker Labs at UW.
I was one of the creators of the game when I was a postdoc at UW. Now I'm a professor at Carnegie Mellon and we're still working on the game. So the Foldit family is expanding, which is exciting. I'll let the students involved in the user study reply to the rest, but if you're in the Pittsburgh area, you should sign up!
Can you fix the web site and get the closed puzzles scored?
Probably a bit more important than some survey…
Hello. My name is Noah Fishel and I will try to take over where Adrien left off. We are group of Master's students in Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon working with Adrien on a project involving massively multiplayer online games with educational components. We are interested in almost all aspects of Fold.it gameplay but particularly the user interface and controls. We will be happy to explain more about the scope of our project in the future.
To be clear, we are not doing a "survey." We would like to observe Fold.it players while they play the game so we can get a better understanding of the physical and mental processes involved. The session would take less than an hour and we will pay you $5 for your time. You would not need to travel as we would prefer to observe you playing in a place that you normally play. The pay is not much, but we are paying you to do something that you already do. If you are anywhere near Pittsburgh and interested, please contact me directly at ndfishel@gmail.com . Thanks!
As for the website fixing. I will be taking over the communication on this thread. Since I am in no position to help with the website or scoring, this is probably not the right medium for that sort of comment. Sorry Brick!
-Noah
Project management seems to have disappeared - I guess I was hoping that someone - anyone - would show at least a little bit of interest.
Good Luck with your survey or study or whatever it is.
Brick, what is this scoring problem? It takes a little while for scoring updates to take after a puzzle closes, is that what you mean?
The last 3 puzzles to close, 194 thru 196, never got scored until Seth Cooper did it yesterday morning. The automated scoring scripts were not running at all, evidently.
How far is it again from Pittsburgh to New Zealand??
I was thinking the same thing… but maybe he's going to be on the east coast sometime soon? ;-)