Influence of Interaction on Perceived Quality in Audiovisual Applications: Evaluation of Cross-Modal Influence

Abstract

This paper presents a subjective assessment among 32 test subjects performed to investigate the question of possible cross-modal division of attention in interactive audiovisual application systems. We give an overview on recent related research, and we describe in detail the experimental setup, the procedure and the analysis of the data obtained. As a result, the experiment described here verifies that interaction or task can have an influence upon the perceived audio quality, even if the interaction / task is performed in another modality.