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Design Requirements for Improving QoE of Web Service Using Time-Fillers

Sumaru NIIDA, Satoshi UEMURA, Etsuko T. HARADA

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As mobile multimedia services expand, user behavior will become more diverse and the control of service quality from the user's perspective will become more important in service design. The quality of the network is one of the critical factors determining mobile service quality. However, this has mainly been evaluated in objective physical terms, such as delay reduction and bandwidth expansion. It is less common to use a human-centered design viewpoint when improving network performance. In this paper, we discuss ways to improve the quality of web services using time-fillers that actively address the human factors to improve the subjective quality of a mobile network. A field experiment was conducted, using a prototype. The results of the field experiment show that time-fillers can significantly decrease user dissatisfaction with waiting, but that this effect is strongly influenced by user preferences concerning content. Based on these results, we discuss the design requirements for effective use of time-fillers.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E96-B No.8 pp.2069-2075
Publication Date
2013/08/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1345
DOI
10.1587/transcom.E96.B.2069
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Network

Authors

Sumaru NIIDA
  KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc.,University of Tsukuba
Satoshi UEMURA
  KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc.
Etsuko T. HARADA
  University of Tsukuba

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