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Volumetric video is a promising technology and it is on the rise due to the popularization of eXtended Reality (XR) applications. However, web support for it has only been lightly explored. Developing a platform to stream live volumetric video on the ...

This work presents a web-based, open-source path tracer for rendering physically-based 3D scenes using WebGPU and the OpenPBR surface shading model. While rasterization has been the dominant real-time rendering technique on the web since WebGL’s ...

This paper introduces an efficient compression scheme—Z-lossless (ZLS)—for video applications with depth streams. ZLS utilizes a novel histogram compression module together with a customized predictor-corrector model and an entropy coder based on ...

Web3 describes the next generation of the Internet, built on top of various technologies, such as Blockchain Technology, Semantic Web, etc. Web3 proposal claims a vision of the Internet that can cut the intermediation of Big tech companies by completely ...

YouTube is a major social media platform that plays a significant role in digital culture, with content creators at its core. These creators often engage in controversial behaviour to drive engagement, which can foster toxicity. This paper presents a ...

Short videos have become one of the dominant formats of social media content. Such short videos are often boosted by advertising to increase their reach and visibility. We investigate user churn (i.e., drop or loss of consumers during the video viewing) ...

Establishing rapport between authors and readers of scientific texts is essential for supporting readers in understanding texts as intended, facilitating socio-discursive practices within disciplinary communities, and helping in identifying ...

Due to the increasing ubiquity of social media, compulsive social media use is an increasingly persistent issue that compels users toward excessive social media usage, which can lead to negative consequences. Though reasons for this behaviour are ...

Multilingual countries are made of communities with their own history and traditions that maintain their identity but, at the same time, have strong social interactions and exchanges. This paper proposes a particular perspective to look at these ...

LLMs offer valuable capabilities, yet they can be utilized by malicious users to disseminate deceptive information and generate fake news. The growing prevalence of LLMs poses difficulties in crafting detection approaches that remain effective across ...

Given the recent proliferation of fake news online, fact-checking has emerged as a critical defence against misinformation. Several fact-checking organisations are currently employed in the initiative to assess the truthfulness of online claims. ...

One way that YouTube aims to support its users to make sense of problematic content they find on its platform is through the inclusion of information panels (IPs) in its search results or video watch pages. Such panels, when present, offer topical ...

A defining characteristic of hypermedia systems is the presence of hypermedia controls. In this paper we examine hypermedia controls as found "in the wild", in particular in the World Wide Web. These hypermedia controls are analyzed to derive a ...

Web analytics tools like Google Analytics are widely available, but website owners outside the eCommerce sector struggle to extract actionable insights from their data to curate and optimize content. This difficulty often arises from challenges in ...

Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become part of everyday life for many people around the world. They are one of the main channels through which information can spread at lightning speed. Thanks to this fact, people use them for the most disparate ...

Web/Comics 2024 continues the workshop series commenced at last year’s ACM Hypertext conference. It focuses on the transformation of the comics medium enacted by hypertext through the emergence of webcomics, or “graphic sequential narratives that are ...

Blockchain fuelled the innovation of numerous application fields. In particular, Web3 applications benefit the most because blockchain can be used to implement a rewarding system for users that contribute the most, thus increasing the overall social ...

The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) to counter problematic smartphone use and support users’ digital wellbeing has recently gained research interest. Yet, such an approach is still in its infancy, particularly when compared to traditional digital ...

Nowadays, inertial sensors are embedded in almost every smartphone and are a key enabler for a wide variety of applications that build on motion. However, in the context of major mobile operating systems, these sensors do not require any permission to ...