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”).
