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.
News
CWI DIS Group awarded EU Worth Project Funding
CWI's Distributed & Interactive Systems Group (DIS) has been awarded a grant for a project by the EU's WORTH Partnership Project.
Steven Pemberton in Nieuwsuur TV on Web@30
To celebrate 30 years since Tim Berners-Lee's proposal for the World Wide Web, an anniversary event is webcast on 12 March. In the Netherlands, CWI Web pioneer Steven Pemberton was interviewed by Nieuwsuur. It was broadcast on national TV on 8 March.
Demo prize for Steven Pemberton at XML Prague
Steven Pemberton (CWI) won the Demo Prize at XML Prague for his demonstration ‘A Clock in XForms’. XForms is a web technology and W3C standard, co-designed by Pemberton, originally intended for handling forms on the web. XForms reduces the time needed to design an application by a factor of ten.
Best paper award for paper co-authored by Francesca de Simone at EUSIPCO 2018
The paper "Rate Distortion Optimized Graph Partitioning for Omnidirectional Image Coding" authored by Mira Rizkallah (INRIA), Francesca De Simone (CWI), Thomas Maugey (INRIA), Christine Guillemot (INRIA), and Pascal Frossard (EPFL), has been awarded with the Best Student Paper Award at EUSIPCO 2018.
Members
Associated Members
Publications
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Li, J. (2019, January 23). Crowds inside out : understanding crowds from the perspective of individual crowd members' experiences.
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Matviienko, A, El El Ali, A, Hilmer, C, Feld, Y, Heuten, W, & Boll, S.C.J. (2018). Designing metaphor-based ambient tangible artifacts to support workspace awareness. I-Com, 17(3), 219–235. doi:10.1515/icom-2018-0024
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Pemberton, S. (2018). An Introduction to XForms.
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Subramanyam, S. (Shishir), & César Garcia, P.S. (2018). Enhancement layer inter frame coding for 3D dynamic point clouds. In 2018 IEEE Games, Entertainment, Media Conference, GEM 2018 (pp. 332–337). doi:10.1109/GEM.2018.8516534
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De Simone, F. (2018). Measuring user Quality of Experience in social VR systems. In AltMM 2018 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Multimedia Alternate Realities, co-located with MM 2018 (pp. 25–26). doi:10.1145/3268998.3277702
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Siahaan, E. (2018, October 16). Visual quality of experience : a metric driven perspective.
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Gruenefeld, U, El El Ali, A, Boll, S.C.J, & Heuten, W. (2018). Beyond Halo and Wedge: Visualizing out-of-view objects on head-mounted virtual and augmented reality devices. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. doi:10.1145/3229434.3229438
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Wen Shieng, P.S, Jansen, A.J, & Pemberton, S. (2018). Fine-grained access control framework for Igor, a unified access solution to the Internet of Things. In Procedia Computer Science (pp. 385–392). doi:10.1016/j.procs.2018.07.194
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Li, J, Röggla, T, Glancy, M, Jansen, A.J, & César Garcia, P.S. (2018). A new production platform for authoring object-based multiscreen TV viewing experiences. In TVX 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video (pp. 115–126). doi:10.1145/3210825.3210834
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Gunkel, S.N.B, Stokking, H.M, Prins, M, Niamut, O, Siahaan, E, & César Garcia, P.S. (2018). Experiencing virtual reality together: Social VR use case study. In TVX 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video (pp. 233–238). doi:10.1145/3210825.3213566
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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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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An end-to-end system for the production and delivery of photorealistic social immersive virtual reality experiences (VRTogether)
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LIT Lace Interface (WORTH Project)
Related partners
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CERTH
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i2CAT
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Xinhua Network
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Artanim
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ENTROPY ZERO SL
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EL FARO DEL FUTURO SL
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Sara+Sarah Smart Textile Desgin LLP
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TNO
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VIACCESS