From: Emily Packer <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 15:16:35 +0000

[With apologies for cross-posting]

Hi all,

We're pleased to announce our support for SwipesForScience – a templating
service that lets researchers quickly create mobile-friendly games for
players to help with analysing large amounts of research data.

The prototype of SwipesForScience, developed at the eLife Innovation Sprint
2018 and originally called Appstract, used natural-language processing to
mine free-text descriptions of scientific research and identify numerical
data and text within them. These were presented to users as a game, tasking
them with tapping only the values that contribute to a study’s sample size.
This data could then be fed back into the natural-language processing
algorithms to further improve automatic sample-size detection in research
papers.

The next phase of the project will now help researchers to easily create
their own games for crowdsourcing data analysis and drive their research
forward. The games will support a variety of annotation tasks, including
text-based annotations for meta-analyses, and image and sound-based
annotations.

For further details about SwipesForScience, see the full announcement at
https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/851c5f49/elife-supports-swipesforscience-to-gamify-crowdsourced-research-and-machine-learning
.

If you'd like more information, please don't hesitate to ask.

Best wishes,

Emily

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