Considerations of Effectiveness of Media Switching and QoS Functions

Abstract

In our previous work, we already proposed a new concept of 'universal multimedia access' to narrow the digital divide by providing appropriate multimedia expressions according to users' (mental and physical) abilities, computer facilities, and network environments. In our approach, multimedia contents are played to support some switching functions such as user interface switching, media switching and QoS switching. In our previous work, we have evaluated some types of user interfaces for different age groups and terminal devices. In this paper, we consider the effectiveness of media switching and QoS Control functions.

Evaluation of Power Consumption for Multimedia Contents Considering Difference in Computer Skill and Devices

“…Also, we have implemented and evaluated our defined 4 types of user interfaces (broadcast UI, on-demand UI, hypertext UI and interactive page UI) [6] [7]. On the other hand, we have evaluated the effectiveness of frame rate and size to play video [8]. From these results, we have redefined classifications according to both media and computer skills and sightseeing contents [[9] [10].…”