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, Twitter account, Vimeo, GitHub
Our research group focuses on facilitating and improving the way people use interactive systems and how people communicate with each other. We combine data science with a strong human-centric, empirical approach to understand the experience of users. This enables us to design and develop next generation intelligent and empathic systems. We base our results on realistic testing grounds and data sets, and embrace areas such as ubiquitous computing, human-centered multimedia systems, and languages.
The group addresses key problems for society and science, following a multi-disciplinary approach. This results in a full-stack methodology that enables us to bridge socio-technical gaps in society and science by instrumenting the appropriate infrastructures and communication protocols using realistic testing grounds.
Distributed and Interactive Systems is an outward-looking research group, that enjoys a number of fruitful partnerships with companies and organizations in the areas of creative industries, smart cities, automotive industry and wellbeing. 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
No vacancies currently.
News
Sneak peek into future of cultural heritage
How can people from London and Paris visit a museum located in Amsterdam together? The MediaScape Extended Reality (XR) application might be a promising solution.
CWI and Sound and Vision open virtual museum during VR Days Amsterdam
3D video will change the way we experience cultural heritage in the future. The virtual museum of CWI and Sound and Vision is a demonstration of how virtual reality will change the public’s experience of a museum visit.
Future Computer Systems and Networking Research: A Manifesto
Future-proof digitalization requires ICT research and development, now. That’s why CWI supports CompSys’ manifesto for Future Computer Systems and Networking Research.
DIS group releases software for Social VR and dynamic point clouds
CWI's DIS group releases CWIPC-SXR dataset and software suite, advancing research on Social VR and dynamic point clouds.
Members
Associated Members
Publications
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Xue, X, El Ali, A, Zhang, T, Ding, G, & César Garcia, P.S. (2021). CEAP-360VR: A Continuous Physiological and Behavioral Emotion Annotation Dataset for 360 VR videos. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. doi:10.1109/TMM.2021.3124080
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Reimat, I, Alexiou, E, Jansen, A.J, Viola, I, Subramanyam, S, & César Garcia, P.S. (2021). CWIPC-SXR: Point cloud dynamic human dataset for Social XR. In Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (pp. 300–306). doi:10.1145/3458305.3478452
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Rossi, S, Viola, I, Toni, L, & César Garcia, P.S. (2021). A new challenge: Behavioural analysis of 6-DoF user when consuming immersive media. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing. doi:10.1109/ICIP42928.2021.9506525
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Gutiérrez, J, Pérez, P, Orduna, M, Singla, A, Cortés, C, Mazumdar, P, … César Garcia, P.S. (2021). Subjective evaluation of visual quality and simulator sickness of short 360 videos: ITU-T Rec. P.919. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. doi:10.1109/TMM.2021.3093717
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Rossi, S, Viola, I, Jansen, A.J, Subramanyam, S, Toni, L, & César Garcia, P.S. (2021). Influence of narrative elements on user behaviour in photorealistic social VR. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Immersive Mixed and Virtual Environment Systems (pp. 1–7). doi:10.1145/3458307.3463371
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Striner, A, Halpin, S, Röggla, T, & César Garcia, P.S. (2021). Towards immersive and social audience experience in remote VR opera. In ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences (pp. 311–318). doi:10.1145/3452918.3465490
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Dehshibi, M.M, Baiani, B, Pons, G, & Masip, D. (2021). A deep multimodal learning approach to perceive basic needs of humans from Instagram profile. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. doi:10.1109/TAFFC.2021.3090809
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Xue, X, El Ali, A, Ding, G, & César Garcia, P.S. (2021). Investigating the relationship between momentary emotion self-reports and Head and Eye Movements in HMD-based 360 VR video watching. In CHI EA: Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1–8). doi:10.1145/3411763.3451627
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Daher, K, Capallera, M, Lucifora, C, Casas, J, Meteier, Q, El Kamali, M, … Mugellini, E. (2021). Empathic interactions in automated vehicles #EmpathicCHI. In CHI EA: Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1–4). doi:10.1145/3411763.3441359
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Xue, X, El Ali, A, Zhang, T, Ding, G, & César Garcia, P.S. (2021). RCEA-360VR: Real-time, continuous emotion annotation in 360◦ VR videos for collecting precise viewport-dependent ground truth labels. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1–15). doi:10.1145/3411764.3445487
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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ICT prijs Pablo Cesar Garcia
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PPS Automotive
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Overeenkomst met Xinhua Network(deel 2): Cooperation of Industry Doctor (PPS Xinhua Network (deel 2))
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Opera co-creation for a social transformation (TRACTION)
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WISE subsidie Irene Viola
Related partners
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Xinhua Network
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Dublin City University
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Matarasso Francois Louis Andre
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Irish Opera Transformations Company Limited by Guarantee
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Fundacio del Teatre del LICEU
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Sociedade Artistica Musical dos Pousos
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Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
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Fundacion Centro de Tecnologias de Interaccion Visual Y Comunicaciones Vicomtech
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Virtual Reality Ireland Media Ltd