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This pioneering book develops definitions and concepts related to Quality of Experience in the context of multimedia- and telecommunications-related applications, systems and services and applies these to various fields of communication and media technologies. The editors bring together numerous key-protagonists of the new discipline "Quality of Experience" and combine the state-of-the-art knowledge in one single volume.
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Concepts: Motivation and Introduction.- Quality and Quality of Experience.- Quality of Experience vs. User Experience.- Cognitive Processes in Quality of Experience.- Factors influencing Quality of Experience.- Features of Quality of Experience.- Temporal Development of Quality of Experience.- Quality of Service vs. Quality of Experience.- Business Perspective on Quality of Experience.- Applications and Methods.- Speech Communication.- Synthetic Speech Output.- Audio-visual Communication.- Audio Transmission.- 3D Audio Presentation.- Video Steaming.- 3D Video Presentation.- Mobile Video Streaming.- Web Browsing.- Mobile Interaction.- Services including Sensory Effects.- Gaming.- Multimedia Learning.- QoE-based Network and Application Management.
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This pioneering book develops definitions and concepts related to Quality of Experience in the context of multimedia- and telecommunications-related applications, systems and services and applies these to various fields of communication and media technologies. The editors bring together numerous key-protagonists of the new discipline “Quality of Experience” and combine the state-of-the-art knowledge in one single volume.
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From the book reviews:
“This book brings together 28 quality of experience (QoE) papers to advance an ontology and taxonomy for QoE. … It could serve as a foundation text for QoE courseware … . it’s also a great survey work for existing QoE practitioners. Finally, because of the application chapters, the text also makes a great how-to reference for any computing professional to measure QoE for their particular applications.” (Bayard Kohlhepp, Computing Reviews, June, 2014)
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From the book reviews:
"This book brings together 28 quality of experience (QoE) papers to advance an ontology and taxonomy for QoE. ... It could serve as a foundation text for QoE courseware ... . it's also a great survey work for existing QoE practitioners. Finally, because of the application chapters, the text also makes a great how-to reference for any computing professional to measure QoE for their particular applications." (Bayard Kohlhepp, Computing Reviews, June, 2014)
