This study looked at users' perception of inter-stream synchronization between audiovisual media and two olfactory streams. The ability to detect skews, and the perception and impact of skews on user quality of experience ...

Recently, the concept of olfaction-enhanced multimedia applications has gained traction as a step towards further enhancing user quality of experience. The next generation of rich media services will be immersive and ...

As a step towards enhancing users’ perceived multimedia quality levels, the authors present the results of a study which looked at user’s perception of inter-stream synchronization between scent and video. The ability to ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) expects to link billions of devices to the Internet, which will produce massive amounts of data. Current approaches move the IoT data out of the network for processing. It results in long delays ...

Lately, significant efforts have being put into proposing various solutions for increasing multimedia viewers’ perceived quality levels. One innovative avenue is to enhance users’ quality of experience (QoE) by extending ...

Edge computing is proposed to remedy the Cloud-only processing architecture for Internet of Things (IoT) because of the massive amounts of IoT data. The challenge is how to deploy and execute data processing tasks ...

In the quest to increase user perceived Quality of Experience (QoE), the classic audio-visual content paradigm can be extended to include media components that stimulate other human senses. Among these, olfaction-enhanced ...

Recent1 research efforts have reported findings on user Quality of Experience (QoE) of immersive virtual reality (VR) experiences. Truly immersive multimedia experiences also include multisensory components such as ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) places significant demands on network infrastructure in order to process data captured by ubiquitous sensor devices. One existing technique to support this sensor data processing involves ...

As a step towards enhancing users' perceived multimedia quality levels beyond the level offered by the classic audiovisual systems, the authors present the results of an experimental study which looked at user's perception ...