Advances in Human-Centered Digital Systems and Services

Dear Colleagues,

The advent of the latest generation of digital systems and services has clearly demonstrated that Quality of Experience (QoE) is of paramount importance. However, research efforts towards the enhancement of QoE are not limited to such novel solutions, as there is much work to be done in all utilization contexts, in order to bridge the gap between what the users receive and what they actually want. The new approaches of the user-centered digital world are assisted by the proposals and findings of various scientific contributions. For instance, subjective studies enable a better understanding of the users’ point of view, objective metrics aim to comprehensively model the perception of the users, and databases provide the grounds for both subjective and objective quality assessment.

This Special Issue welcomes scientific contributions from all the domains of QoE, for any digital system or service. Whether it is the mapping between the key performance indicators of an emerging display system and the perceived visual quality, the performance evaluation of a novel human–computer interface, the investigation of human factors and inter-user effects of an upcoming metaverse solution, the impact assessment of cognitive bias for a dedicated device, or the cost-efficient yet human-centered resource optimization of a conventional digital service, all QoE-related research efforts may be published in this Special Issue. Beyond original, high-quality technical papers, we invite researchers to submit their reviews, tutorials, theoretical frameworks, and proposals.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Technical Committee Member:

Aniko Simon, Sigma Technology

Dr. Peter A. Kara
Dr. Federica Battisti
Guest Editors

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