Sophie Spatharioti

Perspectives Engine

Perspectives Engine is an AI tool that automates the process of putting giant and unfamiliar numbers into familiar context, with a goal of improving reading comprehension. Perspective Engine has been integrated into Bing and PowerPoint Designer, where it and can now recognize when a slide contains a large number that might be difficult to interpret and put the number into perspective. Worked in designing and implementing the crowdsourcing platform for generating analogies for unfamiliar numbers, as part of my internships at Microsoft Research NYC.

Ida Damage Lookout

Healthy Gulf has partnered with Cartosco.pe to launch Hurricane Ida Damage Lookout, a movement that trains citizens to look at aerial photos on their own computers or phones and identify damage to the 600+ facilities in the path of Hurricane Ida. When you participate in a Lookout project from your computer, you will help us recognize three types of Hurricane Ida impacts: flooded petrochemical and oil and gas facilities, oil spills, and burning (flaring) of potentially hazardous gases.

Land Loss Lookout

The Mississippi River Delta, located on Louisiana’s Gulf coast, is one of the most fertile landscapes in the world. The delta provides food and shelter for those who call it home, as well as hurricane and flood protection, a flyway for migratory birds, recreational benefits, and more. Despite their economic and ecological value, Louisiana’s wetlands are being lost at an alarming rate. Over 400 square miles of marshland have been lost to oil and gas activity alone. In response to this crisis, Cartoscope, in partnership with Healthy Gulf and Northeastern University, developed Land Loss Lookout, a citizen science tool that trains users to identify types of wetland loss in the Gulf of Mexico and label where such loss is occurring by categorizing color infrared aerial photographs.

Tile-o-Scope AR

An augmented reality mobile game for sorting images using physical tiles, where participants decide the game rules. Tile-o-Scope AR aims to create stronger community bonds, elicit meaningful conversations around events, and sort data, by creating tangible, multiplayer and cooperative experiences for players, with applications in disaster response and environmental monitoring. Part of my research work as a PhD student at Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences.

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Tile-o-Scope Grid

A web based online activity for sorting multiple images at the same time. Tile-o-Scope Grid aims at creating new, engaging interfaces for volunteer image sorting, by introducing elements of gamification and task variety. Part of my research work as a PhD student at Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences.

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OPENi - A European Union ICT Project

OPENi is an open-source, web-based framework for integrating applications with cloud-based services and personal Cloudlets. Responsible for creating a fully functional web user interface for OPENi, as part of my internship at Velti.

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COSMOS - Cultivate resilient smart Objects for Sustainable city applicatiOnS

In a world of multi-stakeholder information and assets provision on top of millions of real-time interacting and communicating things, COSMOS aims at enhancing the sustainability of smart city applications by allowing IoT based systems to reach their full potential. COSMOS will enable things to evolve and act in a more autonomous way, becoming more reliable and smarter. Contributed to the project as part of my undergraduate thesis titled "Study, Extraction and Utilization of Relational Models among Virtual Entities in the Social Internet of Things", while at NTUA.

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