Description

Leader of the group Distributed and Interactive Systems: Pablo Santiago César Garcia.

For more information, visit our webpage: www.dis.cwi.nl

YouTube channel and Twitter account

Our research group focuses on facilitating and improving the way people access media and communicate with others and with the environment. We address key problems for society and science, resulting from the dense connectivity of content, people, and devices. We use recognised scientific methods, following a full-stack, experimental, and human-centered approach.

 We base our results on realistic testing grounds and data sets, and embrace areas such as wearable technology and smart textiles, immersive media, and languages and infrastructures. Distributed and Interactive Systems is an outward-looking research group, and we enjoy a number of fruitful partnerships with companies and organisations in the areas of creative industries and smart cities.

Our group transfers knowledge through scientific publications, standards bodies, open-source implementations and consultancy. We pride ourselves on pushing boundaries, leading the way for others to follow.

 

 

Vacancies

PhD Student in the joint industrial PhD program with Xinhuanet on the subject of Social Internet of Things

We live in a society based on experiences. Whether we look at a commercial for a holiday destination or interact with social media, the consumer experience plays a crucial role in our behavior. Yet, it is surprising to see how little it is actually known about how consumers value these experiences. The high-end technical solutions for shaping experiences sharply contrast with the rather conventional mechanisms used to measure them. DIS explores the use of smart textiles and wearable sensors as a source for collecting reliable and quantified data about everyday life experiences. In particular, we are interested on better understanding social IoT in the environment of smart cities. Based on realistic testing grounds, collaborating with several commercial and academic partners, we have deployed our technology and infrastructure in places such as the National Theatre of China in Shanghai and the Amsterdam Dance Event in the Netherlands. Our approach is to seamless connecting fashion and textiles with sensing technology, and with the environment. The final objective is to create intelligent and empathic systems that can react to the experience of users.

News

DIS at CHI 2018

DIS at CHI 2018

The Distributed and Interactive Systems group from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) will be present at CHI 2018 showcasing their research on a case-study of developing a multi-sensory clubbing experience during Amsterdam Dance Event 2016, designing preproduction tools for multiscreen TV viewing, and classifying news media sympathy on Twitter after crisis events.

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DIS contributes to MPEG’s work on Point Cloud Compression

DIS contributes to MPEG’s work on Point Cloud Compression

The Distributed and Interactive Systems group has been a core contributor to the effort of Moving Picture Experts Group on 3D point cloud compression technologies. This effort aims at providing efficient representation of static objects and scenes, as well as dynamic objects and real-time acquisition environments. It has resulted in a call for proposals from MPEG.

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Current events

PhD defence Chen Wang (DIS)

  • 2018-05-23T09:45:00+02:00
  • 2018-05-23T11:45:00+02:00
May 23 Wednesday

Start: 2018-05-23 09:45:00+02:00 End: 2018-05-23 11:45:00+02:00

Auditorium VU, Boelelaan 1105 in Amsterdam

Everyone is welcome to attend the public defence of Chen Wang, of her thesis 'Monitoring the Engagement of Groups by Using Physiological Sensors'.

Promotor: Prof.dr. D.C.A. (Dick) Bulterman (VU/CWI)

Co-promotor: dr P.S. (Pablo) César (CWI/TU Delft)

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ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys 2018)

  • 2018-06-12T00:00:00+02:00
  • 2018-06-15T23:59:59+02:00
June 12 Tuesday

Start: 2018-06-12 00:00:00+02:00 End: 2018-06-15 23:59:59+02:00

WCW Congress Center, Science Park 123, Amsterdam

It is our pleasure to welcome you to the ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys 2018) and associated workshops (MMVE2018, NetGames2018, NOSSDAV2018, PV2018),

The ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys) provides a forum for researchers to present and share their latest research findings in multimedia systems. While research about specific aspects of multimedia systems are regularly published in the various proceedings and transactions of the networking, operating system, real-time system, database, mobile computing, distributed systems, and middleware communities, MMSys aims to cut across these domains in the context of multimedia data types. This provides a unique opportunity to investigate the intersections and the inter-play of the various approaches and solutions developed across these domains to deal with multimedia data types.

More information can be found on the website.

Members

Associated Members

Publications

Software

Current projects with external funding

  • Personalised Aftermovies en festivalbeleving
  • Creating and Delivering Shared and Personalised Multi-Screen Broadcast and Broadband Experiences (2-IMMERSE)
  • Project Cairo: an intelligent soft-robotic jacket (Cairo)
  • An end-to-end system for the production and delivery of photorealistic social immersive virtual reality experiences (VRTogether)

Related partners

  • British Telecom
  • CERTH
  • ChyronHego AB
  • FOM-AMOLF
  • i2CAT
  • Illuminations (Television) Limited
  • Institut fur Rundfunktechnik
  • Artanim
  • British Broadcasting Corporation
  • ByBorre
  • Cisco International Limited
  • ENTROPY ZERO SL
  • EL FARO DEL FUTURO SL
  • Hogeschool van Amsterdam
  • TNO
  • VIACCESS