This event is for those who want HCI to help facilitate the event and requires at least 50 participants. We’ll have someone available to introduce the project, help participants get started, and answer any questions along the way.
Live leaderboard
We will also set up a special web page for your event that has a live leaderboard to track everyone’s contributions and show total research impact at the end of the event. If there are multiple teams competing within a larger group, we can show a teams leaderboard too.
Privacy
Stall Catchers does not collect Personally Identifiable Information (PII), though email addresses used to register are stored in a secure database to enable future logins. Read our full privacy policy here.
Setting up in advance
- Team Organizers: sign up here to register on Stall Catchers, if you haven’t yet.
- Team Organizers: create a team on Stall Catchers
- Create a team
- Name your team and write a brief description, and then feel free to add an optional logo. Make sure to use the League drop-down menu to add your team to the Microsoft Giving league so it will show up in the league standings.
- After you create a team, you can send the provided registration link from your team page to participants. When participants register using that link, they will be automatically added to the team! (If they’ve previously registered or are already on another team, they’ll be given the option to join your team).
- IMPORTANT: Please send an email to info@hcinst.org with the name of your team so we can use that info to create a challenge for the facilitated event that includes a live leaderboard.
- Plan to meet online during the scheduled time
Getting ready to play the game
- Introduce participants to the game. Send participants the registration link from the Stall Catcher’s team page, have them watch the tutorial video, and register with an email address and username. (This can also be done on event day, but it can save time to have people get registered in advance.)
- Invite your participants to try the game. The first 10 videos they annotate will be in “tutorial mode” with the online “walk-me-through”.
- Provide additional information about the project if needed. You can send these links to the Wired Magazine article and PBS documentary segment, and/or provide this Stall Catchers one-pager with reference links to videos, articles and scientific studies. Our blog is also a great resource for learning more.
On event day
- Gather your team for micro-volunteering!
- Use the public chat on Stall Catchers or your own chat platform to communicate during the event.
- Start catching!
- Participants can access their matched volunteer time on the “Timesheet” page accessible from the profile menu under a participant username (or https://stallcatchers.com/timesheet)
- Provide participants with the relevant link to your volunteering site to log matched volunteer time.
Schedule
