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 develops co-creation space for digital humanities
As part of the TRACTION project, CWI's DIS group is developing The Co-creation Space, a “private social media tool" uniting media storage, sharing, and media editing capabilities of traditional social media. It allows participants to have conversations easily and interact about production content, such as music or costumes, in the co-creation process.
DIS Group contributes to international standard on subjective assessment for 360º videos
Work from the Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group from CWI has resulted in a new standardization item from the International Telecommunication Union.
Human-Computer Interaction in the Netherlands
DIS group at ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2021 and revitalising CHI Nederland.
UvA, HvA and CWI launch AI Media & Democracy Lab
How will AI and digital technologies transform democracy and the media? researchers from UvA, AUAS and CWI will collaborate with media partners, societal partners and the municipality of Amsterdam in the new AI, Media & Democracy Lab.
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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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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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. 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. doi:10.1145/3411763.3441359
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Zhang, T, El Ali, A, Wang, C, Hanjalic, A, & César Garcia, P.S. (2021). CorrNet: Fine-grained emotion recognition for video watching using wearable physiological sensors. Sensors, 21(1), 1–25. doi:10.3390/s21010052
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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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Pons, G, El Ali, A, & César Garcia, P.S. (2020). ET-CycleGAN: Generating thermal images from images in the visible spectrum for facial emotion recognition. In ICMI 2020 Companion - Companion Publication of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (pp. 87–91). doi:10.1145/3395035.3425258
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Gill, A.S, Cabrero Barros, S, César Garcia, P.S, & Shamma, D.A. (2020). AI at the disco: Low sample frequency human activity recognition for night club experiences. In HuMA 2020 - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Human-Centric Multimedia Analysis (pp. 21–29). doi:10.1145/3422852.3423485
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Subramanyam, S, Viola, I, Hanjalic, A, & César Garcia, P.S. (2020). User centered adaptive streaming of dynamic point clouds with low complexity tiling. In Proceedings of the international conference on Multimedia (pp. 3669–3677). doi:10.1145/3394171.3413535
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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MediaScape
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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