Sophie Spatharioti

About Me

I am currently a PhD candidate in the Computer Science program at Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences, advised by Professor Seth Cooper. In 2015, I received my degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. My main research interests include human-computer interaction, games, and crowdsourcing.

This summer, I will be interning at Microsoft Research NYC, mentored by Jake Hofman and Dan Goldstein.

Outside of research, I am a big tennis fan and you can easily spot me in the crowd by my headphones. I love traveling and carrying my camera around.

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Publications

Does Flight Path Context Matter? Impact on Worker Performance in Crowdsourced Aerial Imagery Analysis

Sofia Eleni Spatharioti, Sara Wylie, Seth Cooper

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management, (ISCRAM 2018)

A Required Work Payment Scheme for Crowdsourced Disaster Response: Worker Performance and Motivations

Sofia Eleni Spatharioti, Rebecca Govoni, Jennifer S. Carrera, Sara Wylie, Seth Cooper

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management, (ISCRAM 2017)

On Variety, Complexity, and Engagement in Crowdsourced Disaster Response Tasks

Sofia Eleni Spatharioti, Seth Cooper

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management, (ISCRAM 2017)

Best Student Paper Award Nomination

Presentations

Identifying and Assessing Points of Interest through Crowdsourced Image Analysis

Sofia Eleni Spatharioti, Seth Cooper

(Poster) Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management, (ISCRAM 2018)

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Cartoscope: A new Platform for Citizen Science and Disaster Response

Sofia Eleni Spatharioti, Rebecca Govoni, Jennifer S. Carrera, Sara Wylie, Seth Cooper

Individual Talk in Citizen Science Association Conference, St. Paul, MN, 2017

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Exploring Required Work and Progress Feedback in Crowdsourced Mapping

Sofia Eleni Spatharioti, Rebecca Govoni, Jennifer S. Carrera, Sara Wylie, Seth Cooper

Work In Progress Poster in The Fourth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, Austin, TX, 2016

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Work Experience

Research Intern - Microsoft Research, New York (05/2018 - 08/2018)

Part of the Computational Social Science Group, mentored by Jake Hofman and Dan Goldstein. Worked on designing and implementing a crowdsourcing platform and database to generate perspectives for helping people understand unfamiliar numbers encountered in news and other sources.

Junior Software Engineer - Velti, Athens, Greece (10/2014 - 03/2015)

Part of the company’s Innovation Department, responsible for research on new technologies. Worked on OPENi, a European Union ICT Project, which is an open-source, web-based framework for integrating applications with cloud-based services and personal Cloudlets. Responsible for creating an Authentication Server, as well as a fully functional web user interface for OPENi.

Projects

Cartosco.pe

An opensource online platform for crowdsourcing analysis of environmental disasters

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Cartoscope is building a sustainable online community that thinks across time and physical scales of environment damage. A non-profit can use Cartoscope to evaluate changes to a watershed over a long period of time, or used to look at a relatively local event and its remediation such as damage to a town from a tornado. Projects on the site can also be scaled up to organize crowd analysis of a widespread disaster, such as Hurricane Sandy.

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.

Tile-o-Scope

A web based online activity for sorting multiple images at the same time. Tile-o-Scope aims at creating new, engaging interfaces for volunteer image sorting, by introducing elements of gamification and task variety.

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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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