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CWI’s Distributed and Interactive Systems group showcases several of its research results in eXtended Reality (XR) in the May 2024 issue of the European ERCIM News magazine.
Recently, ERCIM News 137 was published, with a special theme on eXtended Reality (XR). CWI’s Distributed and Interactive Systems group contributed four articles to this special theme.
The topics are the results of several national and international collaborations:
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VOXReality : Voice-driven Interactions in XR Spaces
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VR2Gather : A Platform for Adaptive Multiparty Social xR Communication
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5DCulture : Fashion Exhibition and Social Virtual Reality
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TRANSMIXR : Enabling the future of Media Experiences through Social XR
Published 23/05/2024
NEW PAPER:
A Platform for Collecting User Behaviour Data during Social VR Experiments Using Mozilla Hubs
New paper presented at MMVE 2024, workshop co-located with ACM MMSys 2024 in Bari.
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Thomas Röggla, David A. Shamma, Julie R. Williamson, Irene Viola, Silvia Rossi, and Pablo Cesar. 2024. A Platform for Collecting User Behaviour Data during Social VR Experiments Using Mozilla Hubs. In Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Immersive Mixed and Virtual Environment Systems (MMVE '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 41–44.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3652212.3652225
Published 26/04/2024
Organisers of the second edition of
Spring School on Social XR
Together with Irene Viola, Thomas Röggla, Omar Niamut and Pablo Cesar, Silvia is one of the organisers of the second edition of the spring school on Social XR which took place from March 4th to 8th 2024 at CWI in Amsterdam.
Published 12/03/2024
NEW PAPER:
Designing and Evaluating a VR Lobby for a Socially Enriching Remote Opera Watching Experience
New paper published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics and presented at IEEE VR 2024.
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S. Lee et al., "Designing and Evaluating a VR Lobby for a Socially Enriching Remote Opera Watching Experience," in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics,
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2024.3372081
Published 12/03/2024
Understanding Users to Optimise 3D Experiences
[Interview on Academic Position]
When we think of the concept of ‘living in the future’, there is perhaps no technology that encapsulates this more than virtual reality (VR) and other immersive media.
Published 05/01/2024
[Interview on UCL Electronic and Electrical Engineering]
Silvia chats to us about how her interest in multimedia developed, her experience doing a PhD at EEE and her current research on user behaviour in virtual reality (VR).
Published 27/11/2023
UCL alumni receives prestigious SIGMM award
[Article on UCL Electronic and Electrical Engineering​]
UCL Electronic and Electrical Engineering PhD alumni, Silvia Rossi, received the ACM SIGMM Award for her thesis on user interactivity in VR systems.
Published 27/11/2023
How do we use space in VR?
[Interview on CWI​]
Interview on CWI website on these of the personal space and navigation in Social VR.
Published 19/10/2023
[Article on CWI​ and DIS website]
During the Dutch Media Week, postdoctoral researcher Silvia Rossi was one of the speakers at the program Cross Media Café on Spatial computing. She brought a scientific perspective talking about her work on understanding user behaviour in XR.
Published 17/10/2023
Silvia general chair of MMVE 2024
Silvia, together with Debora M. C. Saade (UFF, Brazil) and Thomas Röggla (CWI, The Netherlands), will be the general chair of the 16th edition of the international workshop on IMmersive Mixed and Virtual Environment Systems (MMVE). MMVE '24 is co-located with MMSys 2024, a premier conference on multimedia systems and will take place on April 15th-18th, 2024 in Bari, Italy. It .