The Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group from CWI actively participated in the IEEE International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) 2024, in Karlshamn (Sweden) from June 18-20, with:
- The keynote talk: “Towards Volumetric Video Conferencing”
- The organization of the workshop on “Measuring and Modeling User Experiences in XR” and two presentations in the workshop.
Prof. Pablo Cesar from the Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group from CWI and TU Delft keynoted the talk “Towards Volumetric Video Conferencing” on June 18, 2024. The talk focuses on Social Extended Reality (XR) emerging as a new medium, where users can remotely experience immersive content with others, the vision of a true feeling of ‘being there together’ has become a realistic goal. This keynote provides an overview about the challenges to achieve such a goal, based on results from practical case studies like the TRANSMIXR and MediaScape XR projects. It discusses different technologies, like point clouds, that can be used as the format for representing highly-realistic digital humans, and about metrics and protocols for quantifying the quality of experience. The final intention of the talk is to shed some light on social XR, as a new group of virtual reality experiences based on social photorealistic immersive content.
Dr. Irene Viola co-organized the workshop “Measuring and Modeling User Experiences in XR”. Following the footsteps of a recently held Dagstuhl Seminar on Social XR, the workshop invited the research community to participate in a half-day workshop to further discuss the topic of measuring and modeling user experiences in XR. The format of the workshop involved short lightning talks around the topic of measuring and modelling experiences in XR, followed by an exchange of ideas around the challenges and opportunities that arise in this new medium, and how to best quantify and optimize user experience in this context. The goal of this gathering is to find topics of common interest, and foster future research cooperation around them. This way, an increased validity and reliability of assessment approaches for XR technology through the lens of user experience shall be fostered. The workshop was very well attended, including two researchers from CWI: Silvia Rossi and Xuemei Zhou.
Author: Pablo Santiago César Garcia from CWI – Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica