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Quality of Experience

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Abstract

The Chapter provides an overview of Quality of Experience research for web-browsing, highlighting recent research trends. It indicates how Web-QoE assessment has evolved from the mapping of technically measured page-load times to quality estimates to the notion of perceived page-load time. Here, the consideration of the user’s current task and respective role of individual element load times is discussed. The interactive nature of web-browsing is further analyzed in terms of temporal effects regarding the subsequent page access of users during typical browsing sessions. Finally, the chapter provides an outlook on future challenges related with the increasing complexity of web-services and respective page-loading processes.

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    Note that we use the term time when we address physically measured time as well as perceived time. However, in some cases the term duration may be more appropriate, for example for addressing the duration of a stimulus or in general perceived duration.

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  1. Assessment of IP-based Applications, Telekom Innovation Laboratories, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Dominik Strohmeier & Alexander Raake

  2. Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (FTW), Vienna, Austria

    Sebastian Egger & Raimund Schatz

  3. Institute of Computer Science, Chair of Communication Networks, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

    Tobias Hoßfeld

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Strohmeier, D., Egger, S., Raake, A., Hoßfeld, T., Schatz, R. (2014). Web Browsing. In: Möller, S., Raake, A. (eds) Quality of Experience. T-Labs Series in Telecommunication Services. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02681-7_22

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