Unacceptability of instantaneous errors in mobile television: From annoying audio to video

Satu Jumisko-Pyykkö*, M. V. Vinod Kumar, Jari Korhonen

*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingPublished conference contribution

16 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

As in many digital telecommunications systems, the received data streams over Digital Video Broadcasting for Handhelds (DVB-H) may contain bursty transmission errors. The bursty error characteristics affect the end users' perceived audiovisual quality. This study examined the perceived unacceptability of instantaneous but noticeable audio, visual and audiovisual errors. The erroneous streams were generated from four popular television contents by applying three simulated error patterns with different error rates (1.7%, 6.9%, 13.8%) and error burst durations. Instantaneous unacceptability of errors was evaluated by 30 participants with simplified continuous assessment while watching the program content. The results show that with the two lowest error rates the audio errors were more unacceptable than video errors and with the highest error rate the visual and audiovisual errors become the most unacceptable.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMobileHCI 2006 - 8th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
Pages1-8
Number of pages8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006
Event8th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2006 - Espoo, Finland
Duration: 12 Sept 200615 Sept 2006

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Volume159

Conference

Conference8th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2006
Country/TerritoryFinland
CityEspoo
Period12/09/0615/09/06
OtherSponsored by
- Association for Computing Machinery, SIG on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing
- Association for Computing Machinery - Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

Keywords

  • Audio
  • Audiovisual quality
  • Perception
  • Transmission errors
  • Video

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