Test alpha of new project - Chimp & See

• by DZM admin

  Hey, Zooites! We need your expertise!

  I’m happy to invite you, our Talk users, to help us out with the alpha test for our newest Zooniverse project: Chimp & See! This project will focus on identifying chimpanzees and other animals from 15-second videos taken in African forests.

  We need as many of you as possible to help by testing the current interface and offering us some suggestions. The more feedback that we get, the better the final project will be!

  Please note that the site is still in an unfinished state (some links are non-functional, for instance), and that classifications are not yet being recorded—so don’t spend too much time on this! (5-10 classifications should be enough to get a general feel for things.)

  We are most interested in how well the process of classifying flows, and what additional tweaks/improvements might be made to make users feel comfortable with the project.

  If you’re up for it, get started here: Chimp & See (Alpha).

  When you’re done, please fill out this quick survey to let us know about your experience. (You can chat in this thread, too, but please do the survey as well so that we can have all participating Zooites’ responses in one place!)

  Thanks for all your help!

  DZM

  Posted February 20, 2015 3:39 PM

• by Bonnie123

  @DZM: I submitted my comments via the survey, let me know if I need to post them here as well.

  Posted March 7, 2015 4:29 AM

• by Noctiferix

  Do you already know when this will be launched? Seems to be very interesting!

  Posted April 2, 2015 11:42 PM

• by DZM admin in response to Noctiferix's comment.

  Later this month! It's taken a lot of work to get it just right. 😃

  Posted April 3, 2015 4:33 AM

• by tfmorris

  My first 4 classifications were all groups of humans setting the traps, so I got bored and gave up before I had a chance to see how any of the real classification mechanisms worked.

  Posted April 8, 2015 6:52 PM

• by DZM admin

  The demo stuff was just demo stuff. There will be much better data once the actual stuff is uploaded! 😃

  Posted April 8, 2015 7:23 PM

• by Bonnie123

  Is there a reason that this was launched today but some of us never received an email notifying us? I find it odd especially for those of us who did the beta test that no one could be bothered to put us on the email that went out notifying folks that this was launching today.

  Posted April 22, 2015 10:23 PM

• by DZM admin

  An email was sent out. It should have gone to everyone. But our email lists have been regularly very buggy... I'm sorry if the email didn't reach you!! Do you typically receive Zooniverse emails?

  Posted April 22, 2015 10:49 PM

• by Bonnie123

  Yes, I normally receive emails from Grant, maybe there was some kind of a glitch with the emails that are sent from him.
  Update: I also received an email from you on 8 April for Snapshot Serengeti, so I was on one of your email distributions in the past. So there appears to be something going on with the outgoing emails.

  Posted April 23, 2015 4:02 AM

• by nancybohrer

  Based on the link, I think I might have seen a grey fox and marked it as a house cat.Hope someone else caught it.

  Posted May 14, 2015 10:41 PM