Breaking the news on mobile TV: user requirements of a popular mobile content

Hendrik O. Knoche; M. Angela Sasse

doi:10.1117/12.655950

10 February 2006 Breaking the news on mobile TV: user requirements of a popular mobile content

Hendrik O. Knoche, M. Angela Sasse

Proceedings Volume 6074, Multimedia on Mobile Devices II; 60740R (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.655950
Event: Electronic Imaging 2006, 2006, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

This paper presents the results from three lab-based studies that investigated different ways of delivering Mobile TV News by measuring user responses to different encoding bitrates, image resolutions and text quality. All studies were carried out with participants watching News content on mobile devices, with a total of 216 participants rating the acceptability of the viewing experience. Study 1 compared the acceptability of a 15-second video clip at different video and audio encoding bit rates on a 3G phone at a resolution of 176x144 and an iPAQ PDA (240x180). Study 2 measured the acceptability of video quality of full feature news clips of 2.5 minutes which were recorded from broadcast TV, encoded at resolutions ranging from 120x90 to 240x180, and combined with different encoding bit rates and audio qualities presented on an iPAQ. Study 3 improved the legibility of the text included in the video simulating a separate text delivery. The acceptability of News' video quality was greatly reduced at a resolution of 120x90. The legibility of text was a decisive factor in the participants' assessment of the video quality. Resolutions of 168x126 and higher were substantially more acceptable when they were accompanied by optimized high quality text compared to proportionally scaled inline text. When accompanied by high quality text TV news clips were acceptable to the vast majority of participants at resolutions as small as 168x126 for video encoding bitrates of 160kbps and higher. Service designers and operators can apply this knowledge to design a cost-effective mobile TV experience.

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Hendrik O. Knoche and M. Angela Sasse "Breaking the news on mobile TV: user requirements of a popular mobile content", Proc. SPIE 6074, Multimedia on Mobile Devices II, 60740R (10 February 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.655950

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