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Subjective assessment of fairness among users in multipoint communications

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Yutaka Ishibashi,

Manabu Nagasaka, and

Noriyuki FujiyoshiAuthors Info & Claims

ACE '06: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGCHI international conference on Advances in computer entertainment technology

June 2006

Pages 69 - es

https://doi.org/10.1145/1178823.1178905

Published: 14 June 2006 Publication History

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By subjective assessment, this paper investigates the influences of network latency and packet loss on the perception of fairness among users in multipoint communications where the users have a conversation with each other by using live voice and video. We also assess the fairness in the case where we use users' avatars constructed by computer graphics (CG) instead of video. Assessment results show that most of subjects perceive unfairness when the difference in network latency between two terminals exceeds approximately 100 ms, or when the difference in packet loss rate becomes larger than around 30 %. Furthermore, we demonstrate that we can estimate the value of MOS with high accuracy from the difference in network latency and packet loss rate.

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Subjective assessment of fairness among users in multipoint communications
1. Human-centered computing
2. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
    1. Web applications
      1. Internet communications tools
        Web conferencing

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ACE '06: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGCHI international conference on Advances in computer entertainment technology

June 2006

572 pages

ISBN:1595933808

DOI:10.1145/1178823

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Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan

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