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
Best Doctoral Consortium Paper Award for Jan Willem Kleinrouweler at TVX 2017
On 14 June Jan Willem Kleinrouweler of CWI’s DIS group has been awarded with the Best Paper Award at the the ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television and Online Video (TVX 2017) . He received the award for his paper “Enhancing Over-the-Top Video Streaming Quality with DASH Assisting Network Elements”.
DIS at CHI 2017
The Distributed and Interactive Systems group from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) will be present at CHI 2017 showcasing their research on social media and semantics, and smart textiles and environments. CWI contributes with a long and a WiP papers, an interactivity demo, and a workshop paper.
CWI DIS group in Red Bull doc 'This is the Future'
The CWI Distributed and Interactive Systems group cooperated in a revolutionary tech project called 'Red Bull Playrooms' during ADE 2016. Red Bull has now published a documentary that gives insight to the unique elements and the work of all partners including our DIS group regarding this project. In the documentary you will see our researchers in action, together with other contributors to the project.
CWI researcher contributes to new combination of W3C and IDPF in Digital Publishing
On 1 February W3C announced that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) will combine their organizations to set up a new roadmap for Digital Publishing. Ivan Herman, researcher at CWI, has played a seminal role in this combination.
Current events
Smart Textiles and the Internet of Things
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- 2017-09-26T17:00:00+02:00
Smart Textiles and the Internet of Things
Start: 2017-09-26 14:00:00+02:00 End: 2017-09-26 17:00:00+02:00
CWI researchers Pablo Cesar, Sergio Cabrero Barros, Jack Jansen, and Steven Pemberton from the Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) research group will be presenting at a symposium on Smart Textiles and the Internet of Things at the Royal College of Art in London, one of the world's leading art and design universities.
Pablo Cesar will be speaking on physiological sensors and the creative industries, Sergio Cabrero Barros on using smart textiles to sense audiences at events, Steven Pemberton on unified access to the Internet of Things, and Jack Jansen on creating appliances for unified access. The new DIS project "Project Cairo: an intelligent soft-robotic jacket" will also be presented (https://www.cwi.nl/news/2017/kiem-funding-for-development-smart-urban-jacket).
CWI’s Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) research group focuses on facilitating and improving the way people access media and communicate with others and with the environment. They address key problems for society and science, resulting from the dense connectivity of content, people, and devices. The group uses recognized scientific methods, following a full-stack, experimental, and human-centered approach.
More information:
https://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/smart-textiles-and-soft-robotics-symposium/
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/smart-textiles-and-soft-robotics-tickets-37724830985
Picture: a sensor tag on a knit casing.
Lectures:
- Pablo Cesar: “Sensing Engagement: Physiological Sensors and the Creative Industries”
- Sergio Cabrero Barros: "Smart Textiles go Clubbing: Sensing Audience at the Amsterdam Dance Event”
- Steven Pemberton: "Restful, Unified Access to the Internet of Things"
- Jack Jansen "Igor and Iotsa: Creating Appliances for Restful, Unified Access"
Members of Distributed and Interactive Systems
Publications
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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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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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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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Kleinrouweler, J.W.M, Cabrero Barros, S, & Cesar Garcia, P.S. (2017). An SDN Architecture for Privacy-FriendlyNetwork-Assisted DASH. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, 13(3s -44). doi:10.1145/3092838
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Röggla, T, Cabrero Barros, S, Katsouris, D, Zheng, Z, Gill, A.S, Jansen, A.J, … Shamma, D.A. (2017). The club of the future: Participatory clubbing experiences. In Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings (pp. 389–392). doi:10.1145/3027063.3052967
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Krishna, R, Zhu, Y, Groth, O, Johnson, J, Hata, K, Kravitz, J, … Fei-Fei, L. (2017). Visual Genome: Connecting Language and Vision Using Crowdsourced Dense Image Annotations. International Journal of Computer Vision, 1–42. doi:10.1007/s11263-016-0981-7
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Geelhoed, E, Singh-Barmi, K., Biscoe, I, Cesar Garcia, P.S, Jansen, A.J, Wang, C, & Kaiser, R. (2017). Co-present and remote audience experiences: intensity and cohesion. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 76(4), 5573–5606. doi:10.1007/s11042-016-3879-z
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Herman, I. (2017, January). "Publishing@W3C", EPUB Summit, Brussels, Belgium.
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Mekuria, R.N, & Bivolarsky, L. (2016). Overview of the MPEG Activity on Point Cloud Compression. In Data Compression Conference Proceedings. doi:10.1109/DCC.2016.91
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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2-IMMERSECreating and Delivering Shared and Personalised Multi-Screen Broadcast and Broadband Experiences
Related partners
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British Telecom
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ChyronHego AB
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Illuminations (Television) Limited
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Institut fur Rundfunktechnik
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British Broadcasting Corporation
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Cisco International Limited
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Hogeschool van Amsterdam