vital contributions of CWI’s DIS group

Beyond its scientific contribution, DIS group continues to play an lively function within the ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (ACM SIGMM). ACM SIGMM supplies a discussion board for researchers, engineers, and practitioners in all facets of multimedia computing, communication, storage, and functions. Silvia Rossi has been lately elected as SIGMM Director of Conference, which additionally makes her Steering Committee chair of ACM Multimedia. Pablo Cesar can also be a part of the SIGMM executive committee as Editor in Chief of the SIGMM Records, the quarterly journal.

The group additionally co-organised the primary ACM SIGMM European Chapter kick-off assembly, led by Xavier Alameda-Pineda, Elisa Ricci, and Pablo Cesar. The new chapter goals to strengthen the European multimedia neighborhood, promote collaboration between academia and business, and help new initiatives and thematic occasions throughout Europe. During this occasion, Silvia Rossi delivered a keynote discuss titled “From Individual Immersion to Shared Experiences in Social XR”, highlighting the shift from single-user to shared immersive environments and presenting her analysis on behavioural evaluation, and strategies for evaluating multi-user XR techniques.