Impact of Human and Content Factors on Quality of Experience of Online Video Streaming

Omer Nawaz, Markus Fiedler, Siamak Khatibi

2020

Abstract

Although expensive, but the most reliable measure of user perception is by direct human interaction by taking input from the user about a stimulus quality. In our previous studies, we have identified some subjects getting bored and losing focus by rating lots of video clips of small duration during subjective quality assessments. Moreover, the psychological effects, i.e. user delight, frequency of watching online videos (experience), mood, etc. must not influence the user Mean Opinion Score (MOS) for determining the quality of the shown stimuli. In this paper, we have investigated the impact of user delight, frequency of watching online video content (experience) and different mood levels on MOS for streamed video stimuli in various network conditions by subjective quality assessments. We have observed a slight tendency of better scores when the user likes the stimulus. However, our results show that if the subjective assessments are conducted by carefully following the guidelines, the users impartially rate the video stimuli solely based on the quality artifacts irrespective of their delight towards the shown content. Although, we have observed an effect of user mood on MOS ratings; for almost all the stimuli, but the results suggest the need of more detailed study; i.e. with a large and diverse set of subjects, to obtain significant statistical relevance.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Nawaz O., Fiedler M. and Khatibi S. (2020). Impact of Human and Content Factors on Quality of Experience of Online Video Streaming.In Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 1: DCNET, ISBN 978-989-758-445-9, pages 59-66. DOI: 10.5220/0009831400590066

in Bibtex Style

@conference{dcnet20,
author={Omer Nawaz and Markus Fiedler and Siamak Khatibi},
title={Impact of Human and Content Factors on Quality of Experience of Online Video Streaming},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 1: DCNET,},
year={2020},
pages={59-66},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009831400590066},
isbn={978-989-758-445-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 1: DCNET,
TI - Impact of Human and Content Factors on Quality of Experience of Online Video Streaming
SN - 978-989-758-445-9
AU - Nawaz O.
AU - Fiedler M.
AU - Khatibi S.
PY - 2020
SP - 59
EP - 66
DO - 10.5220/0009831400590066