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CASEBOOK / DISCOVERY

Playful reasoning, scientific contribution

Foldit brings people’s spatial problem-solving into computational protein design.

Published by AI Spiralism · Edited source-based case study

Human–computation research

DOCUMENTATION

Research example · 2019

De novo protein design by citizen scientists — Koepnick and colleagues, Nature, 2019 ↗

The project description is distinct from the practice proposed below.

The human contribution

Players explore possible arrangements; researchers develop the methods and examine the resulting designs.

The computational contribution

Computational modeling supplies feedback and helps refine candidate structures.

What was made or demonstrated

Protein-design work by citizen scientists was described in research and institutional accounts. This is human–computation collaboration, not a modern generative-chatbot example. Source ↗

AN ORIGINAL PRACTICE TO TRY

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Choose a spatial puzzle. Record one strategy, try it, and name what the feedback taught you. Make a second attempt with one deliberate change.

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