Amalia Kallergi

About me

For updated information please visit kallergia.com

My name is Amalia and I come from Greece and Computer Science. I left both for the charms of the Mediatechnology master program in Leiden University. I graduated from Media Technology in June 2006 with the project "Provocative Tactics in the Museum Territory", and I still have a soft spot for (story-telling in) museums, archives and collections. From 2007 till early 2008, I worked as a scientific programmer for the Imaging & BioInformatics group involved in the development of the CSIDx imaging database for the Cyttron project. In the meantime, I taught. Since March 2008, I am a PhD student for the same group and project.

(masked during the "Art and the Life Sciences" course, April 2008, image by: Sonja van Kerkhoff)

Research Area

I will be investigating new interaction styles for scientific data with respect to bio-imaging databases. Currently, I am examining whether playful interfaces such as video games can be used to interact with/ explore semantic structures such as a networked collection.

keywords: human-computer interaction, information visualization, image repositories, games, gamification

Selected Publications

[flickr] Kallergi, A., Verbeek, F.J. (2011) The games Flickrites play: An investigation of Flickr-based gaming activity with special focus on opportunities for exploratory interaction. Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Game and Entertainment Technologies 2011, 35-42. pdf

[onto-frogger] Kallergi, A., Verbeek, F.J. (2010) Onto-Frogger: the Making Of. Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries, NordiCHI 2010, 691-694.acm pdf

[onto-frogger] Kallergi, A., Verbeek, F.J. (2010) Video Games for Collection Exploration: Games for and out of Data Repositories. Proceedings of the 14th International Academic MindTrek Conference, 143-146. acmpdf

[cyttron] Kallergi, A., Bei, Y., Kok., P., Dijkstra, J., Abrahams, J.P., Verbeek, F.J. (2009) Cyttron: A virtualized microscope supporting image integration and knowledge discovery. In: Cell Death and Disease Series (Eds.Backendorf,Noteborn,Tavassoli): Proteins Killing Tumour Cells, ResearchSignPost, Kerala India, 291-315.

[cyttron] Kallergi, A., Bei, Y., Verbeek, F.J. (2009) The Ontology Viewer: Facilitating Image Annotation with Ontology Terms in the CSIDx imaging Database. Proceedings VISSW 2009, CEUR-WS Proceedings Vol. 443. available online

[mediatech] Kallergi, A., Lamers, M. (2008) Word-of-Mouth: A technologically mediated agent provocateur. Proceedings of the Nordic Digital Excellence in Museums Conference (NODEM 08), Reykjavík, Iceland. available online

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Courses

Instructor

Introduction to Programming (IP)

Student assistant

Human Computer Interaction (HCI) by Fons Verbeek (2008, 2009, 2010)

Introduction to Programming (IP) by Mark Huiskes (2009)