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Browser-Based Game Design for Cognitive Effort Aware Quality of Experience Evaluation

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Games and Learning Alliance (GALA 2023)

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Cognitive effort plays a crucial part in our multimedia consumption experience as it affects attention. However, traditional research in quality of experience (QoE) relies on the subjective ratings of a multimedia consumption experience under a lab-based environment without distractions. To make the collected QoE ratings closer to realistic usage scenarios we designed a browser-based game as an adapted QoE subjective test that can incorporate and quantify cognitive effort using a dual-task paradigm. Our pilot study results show that our proposed browser-based game is a viable protocol that can control for, and reflect, the cognitive effort via selected self-reported measures given an appropriate load range. Future work will further standardise and simplify the game protocol for robustness, repeatability and test duration.

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Special thanks to Fintan Costello, Markus Vaalgamaa and Xiaolin Mei for the continuous discussions on the experiment design, and David Baker and L-Miao Li for advices on statistical analysis.

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    Pheobe Sun, Flavia H. Santos & Andrew Hines

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  1. Technological University Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

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  2. Technological University Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

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  3. University of Galway, Galway, Ireland

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  4. Berlin School of Economics and Law, Berlin, Germany

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  6. Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

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Sun, P., Santos, F.H., Hines, A. (2024). Browser-Based Game Design for Cognitive Effort Aware Quality of Experience Evaluation. In: Dondio, P., et al. Games and Learning Alliance. GALA 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14475. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49065-1_49

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