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Symposium on Human-Centered Multimedia to celebrate Pablo César’s Professorship Appointment

On 20 May 2022, Pablo César gives his inaugural lecture at TU Delft, Aula, to celebrate his appointment to Professorship. The lecture, titled “Human-Centered Multimedia: making remote togetherness possible”, will provide an overview of his research.

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26 Apr 2022
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On 20 May 2022, Prof. Pablo César will give his inaugural lecture at TU Delft, Aula, to celebrate his appointment to Professorship. The lecture, titled “Human-Centered Multimedia: making remote togetherness possible”, will provide an overview of his research with a focus on volumetric video conferencing and the future of eXtended Reality (XR) as a collaboration and communication medium.

“We are moving towards a connected intelligent world, in which always-on sensing and monitoring will enable rich immersive media experiences (remote working, medical consultation, online cultural heritage experience, entertainment)”, says Prof. Dr. César. This position at TU Delft, Chair on Human-Centered Multimedia Systems, addresses future challenges on the design and development of multimedia systems, resulting from this societal transformation. The vision behind the Chair is a future where multimedia systems will be human-centered and thus capable of understanding the user(s) and the environment, providing empathic and highly customized (multi)media experiences that are immersive and interactive. The focus is on facilitating and improving the way people access media and communicate with others and with the environment.

Prof. dr. Pablo César

My aim is to better integrate core human-computer interaction methodologies and computer science research. My firm conviction is that for a humane future and for solving tomorrow’s scientific challenges, an interdisciplinary research approach is required.

To commemorate the occasion, a number of associated events will take place (see webpage):

  • Workshop on Human-Centered Multimedia at hotel Karel V in Utrecht on May 19th for focused and interactive discussions about the research field, together with 12 invited international researchers (by invitation only);
  • Seminar on Human-Centered Multimedia at TU Delft, Aula (Commissiekamer 3), on May 20th starting at 10:00, with presentations by selected international speakers (open to the public and free: register here);
  • Inaugural lecture “Human-Centered Multimedia: making remote togetherness possible” by Prof. Dr. Pablo César at TU Delft, Aula (Auditorium), on May 20th starting at 15:00 (open the public and free: register here)

About Pablo César

Pablo César has led the Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group at CWI since January 2014 and is Professor of Human-Centered Multimedia Systems in the Department of Intelligent Systems (INSY) at TU Delft. He has received the prestigious 2020 Netherlands Prize for ICT Research. He is IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Senior member, the highest grade for which IEEE members can apply, and ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Distinguished Member, cited for significant achievements across the computing field recognizing up to 10 percent of ACM worldwide membership. His research focuses on measuring and evaluating the way users interact and communicate with each other using a wide range of decentralized digital systems. César’s research combines data science techniques with a strong human-centric, empirical approach to understand the experiences of users. This enables him to design and develop next generation intelligent and empathic systems. He bases his results on realistic testing grounds and data sets, and embrace areas such as healthcare and wellbeing, education, smart cities, and creative industries. César has co-directed 14 externally funded research projects (H2020, FP7, FP6, PPP, NWO).

About DIS

CWI’s DIS research group focuses on facilitating and improving the way people use interactive systems and how people communicate with each other. The group combines data science with a strong human-centric, empirical approach to understand the experience of users. This enables them to design and develop next generation intelligent and empathic systems. They base their results on realistic testing grounds and data sets, and embrace areas such as ubiquitous computing, human-centered multimedia systems, and languages.

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