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Unique experiment during 'War Horse' play in Shanghai
The National Theatre of China, Chinese news agency Xinhuanet and CWI performed a unique sensor experiment during a series of theater performances of 'War Horse' in Shanghai. During the experiments, volunteers were …
Wearing Sense: smart fashion measures user responses during CWI in Bedrijf event
Wearable technology is becoming more integrated into everyday life. By embedding sensors in textiles, fashion that senses the wearer reactions can be produced.
Internet pioneers Beertema and Pemberton in XS4ALL movie
Internet provider XS4ALL interviewed Internet & Web pioneers Piet Beertema and Steven Pemberton from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam in a movie - 'De Nederlandse helden van het internet' (The …
CWI and Xinhuanet sign cooperation agreement
CWI and Chinese online news provider Xinhuanet signed a cooperation agreement to develop a user experience research program. Jos Baeten (director CWI) and Tian Shubin (Xinhuanet CEO) signed the agreement last week …
Experimental theatre show performed in two venues simultaneously
On Tuesday 9 September, CWI multimedia researchers will contribute to a unique theatre performance. Miracle Theatre from Falmouth (UK) will perform a single play of Shakespeare’s The Tempest split between two theatres, …
Vconect project streams concert to remote audiences (video)
Together with partners of the Vconect project, researchers at CWI demonstrated how group video communications can be used to make remote audiences experience a performance as though they are actually present.
Theatre play with actors in two locations
Together with partners of the Vconect project, researchers at CWI demonstrated how group video communications can be used to enable a theatre play performed between two different locations, and experienced live by …
