Changing frame rate, changing satisfaction? [multimedia quality of perception]

Perceptual indicators of multimedia quality have to be taken into account in order to build the truly end-to-end communication architectures of the future. This paper investigates the perceptual impact of differing multimedia presentation frame rates on user information assimilation and level of satisfaction. We apply the quality of perception (QoP) concept, which encompasses not only a user´s ability to analyse, synthesise and assimilate the informational content of multimedia but also his/her satisfaction with the quality of a multimedia presentation. Our results show that higher frame rates, although resulting in a better-perceived level of quality and enjoyment, across a range of video content, do not significantly increase the level of user information assimilation.