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
DIS group contributes to book on Immersive Video Technologies
Members of our Distributed and Interactive Systems group contributed to a new book that offers a comprehensive overview of immersive video technologies. Immersive video, which is often used with virtual reality technology, is a type of video content that is designed to make viewers feel like they are inside the video.
Over 1 million euros for CWI and Sound & Vison for XR research
Centrum Wiskunde &Informatica (CWI) and Sound & Vision are partners in the recently launched European research project TransMIXR. TransMIXR develops technologies that enable professionals in the cultural and creative industries to create new productions in eXtended Reality (XR).
DIS group supports community opera that premiered in Barcelona
On 5 October 2022, the world witnessed the premiere of La Gata Perduda (The Lost Cat) at the Liceu opera house in Barcelona. CWI’s Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group played a special part in the creation of the opera by the Liceu and residents from the Raval neighbourhood.
DIS wins best demo award at ACM Multimedia 2022
The DIS group from CWI has received the demo award at ACM International Conference on Multimedia, with the paper “Mediascape XR: A cultural heritage experience in Social VR”.
Current events
Winter School on Social XR (Semester Programme DIS)
- 2023-03-13T09:00:00+01:00
- 2023-03-17T17:00:00+01:00
Winter School on Social XR (Semester Programme DIS)
Start: 2023-03-13 09:00:00+01:00 End: 2023-03-17 17:00:00+01:00
The Distributed en Interactive Systems research group (DIS) of CWI presents a semester programme on Social XR, and kicks off with Winter School in March. More information will follow soon.
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Publications
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Alexiou, E, Nehme, Y, Zerman, E, Viola, I, Lavoue, G, Ak, A, … César Garcia, P.S. (2023). Subjective and objective quality assessment for volumetric video. In Immersive video technologies.
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Li, J, & César Garcia, P.S. (2023). Social virtual reality (VR) applications and user experiences. In Immersive video technologies.
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Gomes, P, Rossi, S, & Toni, L. (2022). Explaining hierarchical features in dynamic point cloud processing. In Proceedings of the Picture Coding Symposium.
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Jouis, C, Orus-Lacord, M, & Pemberton, S. (2022). About ergonomics of computer interfaces designing a system: designing a system for human computational collective use. Presented at the The 14th international conference on management of digital ecosystems (MEDES).
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Rossi, S, Viola, I, & César Garcia, P.S. (2022). Behavioural Analysis in a 6-DoF VR System: Influence of Content, Quality and User Disposition. In IXR '22: Proceedings of the 1st workshop on interactive eXtended reaility, (pp. 3–10). doi:10.1145/3552483.3556454
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Subramanyam, S, Viola, I, Jansen, A.J, Alexiou, E, Hanjalic, A, & César Garcia, P.S. (2022). Subjective QoE Evaluation of User-Centered Adaptive Streaming of Dynamic Point Clouds. In 2022 14th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), Lippstadt, Germany, 05-07.09.2022. doi:10.1109/QoMEX55416.2022.9900879
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Rao, S, Ghosh, S, Pons Rodriguez, G, Röggla, T, El Ali, A, & César Garcia, P.S. (2022). Investigating affective responses toward in-video pedestrian crossing actions using camera and physiological sensors. In Main Proceedings - 14th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, AutomotiveUI 2022 (pp. 226–235). doi:10.1145/3543174.3546842
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Rao, S, Ghosh, S, Pons Rodriguez, G, Röggla, T, El Ali, A, & César Garcia, P.S. (2022). Investigating Affective Responses toward In-Video Pedestrian Crossing Actions using Camera and Physiological Sensors. In AutomotiveUI '22: 14th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, Seoul, Republic of Korea, September 17 - 20, 2022 (pp. 226–235).
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Rao, S, Resendez, V.D.C, El Ali, A, & César Garcia, P.S. (2022). Ethical self-disclosing Voice User Interfaces for delivery of news. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces.
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Shaping the technologies that impact our democracy. (2022). Shaping the technologies that impact our democracy.
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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AI, Media & Democracy Lab (ELSA Lab)
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ICT prijs Pablo Cesar Garcia
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Opera co-creation for a social transformation (TRACTION)
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Ignite the Immersive Media Sector by Enabling New Narrative Visions (TransMIXR)
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Voice driven interaction in XR spaces (VOX)
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WISE subsidie Irene Viola
Related partners
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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