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.
News
KIEM funding for developing a smart urban jacket
CWI's DIS group led by Pablo Cesar has been awarded KIEM funding by NWO Humanities. The funding will go to "Project Cairo: an intelligent soft-robotic jacket". DIS will work on this project together with two partners: Borre Akkersdijk (Byborre) and Bas Overvelde (Amolf).
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.
DIS researchers receive Excellence in DASH Award at MMSys 2017
Jan Willem Kleinrouweler of CWI’s Distributed and Interactive Systems group has received the Excellence in DASH Award at ACM Multimedia Systems 2017 in Taipei, Taiwan.
Steven Pemberton wins 2017 Best Demo Award at XML London
On 10 June 2017 Steven Pemberton won by acclamation the Demo Award at the XML London conference for his demonstration 'XForms Game'. XForms is a web technology and W3C standard, co-designed by Pemberton, originally intended for handling forms on the web. It now has been generalized to allow the description of more general applications.
Members
Associated Members
Publications
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Kuijk, A.A.M. (2017). A Method for Autonomous Positioning Avatars in a Group.
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Cesar Garcia, P.S. (2017). Sensing the Audience: Connecting Fashion, Senses, and Spaces. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems (PhyCS2017).
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Kumar, V, Bakhshi, S, Kennedy, L, & Shamma, D.A. (2017). The force within: Recommendations via gravitational attraction between items. In UMAP 2017 - Proceedings of the 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (pp. 294–297). doi:10.1145/3079628.3079694
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Kumar, V, Bakhshi, S, Kennedy, L, & Shamma, D.A. (2017). The Force Within: Recommendations Via GravitationalAraction Between Items. In Proceedings of the International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP).
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Shamma, D.A, Yew, J, & Do, E.Y.-L. (2017). Welcome to ACM C&C 2017 in Singapore!. C and C 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition.
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Shamma, D.A, Yew, J, & Bailey, B (Eds.). (2017). Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition. (D.A Shamma, J Yew, & B Bailey, Eds.).
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Kleinrouweler, J.W.M, Meixner, B, & Cesar Garcia, P.S. (2017). Improving Video Quality in Crowded Networks Using a DANE. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (ACM NOSSDAV 2017).
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Wang, C, & Cesar Garcia, P.S. (2017). The play is a hit -but how can you tell? measuring audience bio-responses towards a performance. In C and C 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition (pp. 336–347). doi:10.1145/3059454.3059465
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Kleinrouweler, J.W.M. (2017). Enhancing Over-the-Top Video Streaming Quality with DASH Assisting Network Elements. In Adjunct Publication of the 2017 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video (pp. 113–116). doi:10.1145/3084289.3084295
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Kegel, I, Walker, J, Lomas, M, Jansen, A.J, & Wyver, J. (2017). 2-Immerse: A Platform for Orchestrated Multi-Screen Entertainment. In Adjunct Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television and Online Video (ACM TVX 2017).
Software
MP3DG: development framework for point cloud compression algorithms
MP3DG is a software framework for the design, implementation and evaluation of point cloud compression algorithms. It has been developed in the Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group as an extension of the open Point Cloud Library (PCL).
Invisible XML: parsing any format into XML
Invisible XML is based on the idea that data in any parsable format can be treated as XML -- a format that is readable by machines as well as humans -- without the need for markup.
QoE Testbed: Performing quality studies on video-conferencing systems
The QoE Testbed is a set of tools for conducting Quality of Experience (QoE) studies for video-conferencing.
VideoLat: Measuring end-to-end delays in A/V systems
VideoLat is a toolset to measure the delays of audio-visual pipelines, such as teleconferencing systems.
Ambulant: An open media player for SMIL presentations
The Ambulant Open SMIL Player is an open-source media player with support for SMIL, a W3C XML standard to describe multimedia presentations.
Current projects with external funding
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Personalised Aftermovies en festivalbeleving
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Creating and Delivering Shared and Personalised Multi-Screen Broadcast and Broadband Experiences (2-IMMERSE)
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Project Cairo: an intelligent soft-robotic jacket (Cairo)
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An end-to-end system for the production and delivery of photorealistic social immersive virtual reality experiences (VRTogether)
Related partners
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British Telecom
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CERTH
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ChyronHego AB
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FOM-AMOLF
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i2CAT
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Illuminations (Television) Limited
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Institut fur Rundfunktechnik
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Artanim
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British Broadcasting Corporation
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ByBorre
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Cisco International Limited
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ENTROPY ZERO SL
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EL FARO DEL FUTURO SL
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Hogeschool van Amsterdam
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TNO
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VIACCESS