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Type of site | Citizen science web portal |
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| Available in | English |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | No |
| Current status | Online |
ScienceAtHome is a team of scientists, game developers, designers and visual artists based at Aarhus University, Denmark. ScienceAtHome does research on quantum physics, citizen science and gamification. ScienceAtHome also develops games that contribute to scientific research, and studies how humans interpret information to achieve results superior to some algorithmic approaches.
Most ScienceAtHome games are casual games and require no formal scientific training. Over 150,000.[1] people have contributed to ScienceAtHome citizen science projects by playing games. Research games are also part of a much larger movement of creating serious games that go beyond mere entertainment.
The premise behind such games is that humans are better than computers at performing certain tasks, because of their intuition and superior visual processing. Video games are now being used to channel these abilities to solve problems in quantum physics.
- ^ "Forsker vil tage eksistensberettigelsen fra Videnskab.dk". 6 March 2017.