Distributed and Interactive Systems group news

Fine-Grained Temporal Emotion Recognition in Video

CWI PhD student Tianyi Zhang will defend his PhD thesis "On Fine-Grained Temporal Emotion Recognition in Video: How to Trade off Recognition Accuracy with Annotation Complexity?" at TU Delft 3 October.

Shaping the technologies that impact our democracy

Misinformation is just one of many problems we face with the rise of artificial intelligence. Technology is impacting our democracy in an unprecedented way. That is why CWI, the university of Amsterdam …

Remote, but still together

After two years of COVID-19 we all know that communicating through a flat screen is exhausting. Since long before that, Pablo Cesar, group leader of CWI's DIS group and professor at TU …

Dutch Post-CHI 2022 at CWI

As part of the yearly Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) activities of CHI Nederland (CHI NL), this year CWI will host the Dutch Post-CHI 2022 as an in-person event on Wednesday, 22 June.

Steven Pemberton on NOS News TV

On 14 June, CWI’s Steven Pemberton was interviewed on national radio and television in the Netherlands, talking about the end of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser.

Symposium on Human-Centered Multimedia to celebrate Pablo César’s Professorship Appointment

On 20 May 2022, Pablo César gives his inaugural lecture at TU Delft, Aula, to celebrate his appointment to Professorship. The lecture, titled “Human-Centered Multimedia: making remote togetherness possible”, will provide an …

DIS AT CHI 2022

Research carried out by the Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has resulted in contributions to this year's ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing …

ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Practice Award 2022 for Steven Pemberton

CWI researcher Steven Pemberton has been awarded the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Practice Award 2022. Congratulations!