Wednesday, June 24, 2026 | 02:00 p.m. | Room: N.1.04 | University of Klagenfurt
Prof. Carsten Griwodz
Networks and Distributed Systems | University of Oslo
MishMash role: Work Package Leader Group member
Abstract: This talk will introduce the research of SINLab, the Sustainable Immersive Networking Lab, at the University of Oslo. Our applications are diverse, and range from music making to working on assembly lines, and also our investigations range from the efficient parallelization of media-specific algorithms to quantitative user experiences. Through all of this, we explore how humans perceive audiovisual and tactile experiences. Our research questions are concerned with the disconnect between local environments and those that are remote in time and space. We answer questions like: „To which extent can Redirected Walking help you to experience unconstrained virtual worlds through natural movement?” and “How can we overcome the delay challenges when you act remotely in first person through a robot arm and hand?”. My talk will introduce these questions in some detail and give an overview of our findings so far.
Bio: Carsten Griwodz is a professor at the University of Oslo. He received his Diploma in Computer Science from the University of Paderborn, Germany, in 1993. He worked at the IBM European Networking Center in Heidelberg, Germany, before joining the Multimedia Communications Lab (KOM) at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. There, he obtained his doctoral degree in 2000 and joined the University of Oslo in the same year. He worked at Simula Research Laboratory from 2005 to 2018. He has been a member of ACM since 1996 and of IEEE since 2011. At the University of Oslo, he was previously group leader of “Networks and Distributed Systems” and, from 2020 to 2025, head of the section for Distributed Infrastructures and Security.
His research interest is the performance of interactive multimedia systems. He explores research advances in fields ranging from networks and operating systems to computer vision to understanding how humans reach the point of sufficient immersion. His goal is to understand how users can become sufficiently immersed in an experience depending on their goals and context. He belongs to the Sustainable Immersive Networking Lab, a diverse group of people who aim at the improvement of human experiences in immersive remote presence. He is a work package leader of the AI Center „MishMash Centre for AI and Creativity”, the only Norwegian AI Center focussed on Creativity, leads MIRAGE (“Multimodal Immersive Interactions for Remote Education Across Geographically Distributed Sites”) and partner in DRIVE (“Brain-driven Remote Collaborative Physical Work”).
On 16 April, Dr Felix Schniz (ITEC) organized a guest talk and workshop by Flavia Mazzanti and Manuel Bornell from Immerea (
Flavia Mazzanti and Manuel Bonell are co-founders of Immerea, a Vienna-based indie studio dedicated to VR games and interactive installations. Their interdisciplinary practice explores new modes of perception and interaction in virtual and hybrid spaces, with a strong focus on artistic quality and level of experimentation Their work has been exhibited internationally at institutions and festivals including Ars Electronica (Linz), DIG Shibuya (Tokyo), KunstHaus Wien (Vienna), Kunsthaus Graz, FILE Festival (São Paulo), MESH Festival (Basel), DA Z – Digital Arts Festival Zurich, and ADAF – Athens Digital Arts Festival. Alongside their studio practice, they are both active as university lecturers, speakers, and co-organizers of XR Austria, Austria’s largest community for immersive technologies.
Bio: Als Lead Evangelist bei Celonis inspiriert Rudy Kuhn Kunden, Partner und Analysten dazu, ihre Geschäftsabläufe unter dem Gesichtspunkt von Process Intelligence, Automatisierung und Orchestrierung neu zu gestalten. Mit über 25 Jahren Erfahrung in der Prozessoptimierung und -transformation sowie 16 Jahren tiefgreifender Beschäftigung mit Process Mining hat er seine Karriere darauf ausgerichtet, Unternehmen dabei zu unterstützen, das volle Potenzial ihrer durchgängigen Prozesse auszuschöpfen. Vom Aufbau des ersten E-Business-Beratungsteams von IBM in Deutschland über die Gründung von ProcessGold und die Einführung von Process Mining bei UiPath bis hin zu seiner aktuellen Rolle bei Celonis – Rudy stand und steht weiterhin an der Spitze der digitalen Transformation.
Bio: Hadi Amirpour is working on adaptive video streaming, image/video compression, QoE evaluation, 3D and immersive imaging, and machine-learning-based medical image analysis, with a focus on translating theory into next-generation multimedia systems. He has received multiple distinctions, including Best Paper Awards (PCS 2024, NAB 2025) and Grand Challenge wins at ICIP 2024 and VCIP 2025. He contributes to JPEG Pleno and MPEG standardization on light fields, point clouds, and immersive formats, and has co-chaired Qualinet Task Force 7 since 2021, advancing subjective and objective video quality assessment. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE TCSVT and holds key leadership roles such as TPC Co-Chair of VCIP 2025 and General Co-Chair of QoMEX 2026 and MMSP 2027. He is also active in organizing special sessions, workshops, and tutorials at major venues, including IEEE ICME, IEEE QoMEX, ACM Multimedia, VQEG, EUVIP, and ACM MobiSys.
Short CV: I’m a Professor at the University of Kassel, where I head the Distributed Systems group. Before, I was a professor at Brandenburg University of Technology and headed the Computer Networks group. Prior to that, I was at RWTH Aachen University, and before that, I was with Anja Feldmann at TU Berlin / Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratories. I was a visiting scholar at the group of Paul Barford at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA.
