Research Area: Edge Computing
Gaming is a growing hobby in the young generation around the world and games are played from different platforms such as personal computer (PC)/mobile applications, online server and cloud services. Quality of experience (QoE) domain used for the assessment of user experience during the playing of the game. In this paper, we assess the QoE of the game players while playing different popular games such as Need for Speed Underground II and Subway Surfers, when they play the game from PC/mobile applications and online by using PC and mobile devices. The purpose of the research is to measure the satisfaction level for game playing from a different device and source by avoiding gaming CDs and kiosks. We provide descriptive and inferential analysis of user’s data and results show users are satisfied with application-based gaming visual quality, and big-screen display and online gaming have worst ratings for visual quality due to low graphics quality.
Keywords:
Quality of experience
Visual quality
Gaming
Author(s) Name: Asif Ali Laghari, Khalil-ur-Rehman Laghari, Kamran Ali Memon, Muhammad Bux Soomro, Rashid Ali Laghari, Vishal Kumar
Journal name: Entertainment Computing
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Publisher name: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.entcom.2020.100362
Volume Information: Volume 34, May 2020, 100362
