Computers in the Schools - Special issue: multimedia and megachange—new roles for educational computing, part 2
QoS impact on user perception and understanding of multimedia video clips
MULTIMEDIA '98 Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Multimedia
Experimental evaluation of loss perception in continuous media
Multimedia Systems
Perceptual user interfaces: perceptual bandwidth
Communications of the ACM
Quality is in the eye of the beholder: meeting users' requirements for Internet quality of service
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Helping users determine video quality of service settings
CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Video Acceptability and Frame Rate
IEEE MultiMedia
Empirical study of user perception behavior for mobile streaming
Proceedings of the tenth ACM international conference on Multimedia
User-perceived quality-aware adaptive delivery of MPEG-4 content
NOSSDAV '03 Proceedings of the 13th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video
Measuring visual appeal of web pages
CHI '04 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Multimedia interfaces for users with high functioning autism: An empirical investigation
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Does context matter in quality evaluation of mobile television?
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services
Does cognitive style affect student performance on a web-based course?
European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics: Designing beyond the Product --- Understanding Activity and User Experience in Ubiquitous Environments
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Whilst multimedia technology has been one of the main contributing factors behind the Web's success, delivery of personalized multimedia content has been a desire seldom achieved in practice. Moreover, the perspective adopted is rarely viewed from a cognitive styles standpoint, notwithstanding the fact that they have significant effects on users' preferences with respect to the presentation of multimedia content. Indeed, research has thus far neglected to examine the effect of cognitive styles on users' subjective perceptions of multimedia quality. This paper aims to examine the relationships between users' cognitive styles, the multimedia quality of service delivered by the underlying network, and users' quality of perception (understood as both enjoyment and informational assimilation) associated with the viewed multimedia content. Results from the empirical study reported here show that all users, regardless of cognitive style, have higher levels of understanding of informational content in multimedia video clips (represented in our study by excerpts from television programmes) with weak dynamism, but that they enjoy moderately dynamic clips most. Additionally, multimedia content was found to significantly influence users' levels of understanding and enjoyment. Surprisingly, our study highlighted the fact that Bimodal users prefer to draw on visual sources for informational purposes, and that the presence of text in multimedia clips has a detrimental effect on the knowledge acquisition of all three cognitive style groups.