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Multimedia CSCW applications are rapidly becoming mainstream business tools. If users are to be able to perform useful tasks with these tools the acceptability of the subjective quality of the service must be adequate. This acceptability is affected by many factors, including the user interface, the task undertaken, the audio and video coding, the connection speed and the network performance. The end-to-end delay has been identified as a significant parameter affecting the user's satisfaction with the service. Earlier work identified the delay bounds for which the quality of the CSCW service was acceptable to users performing real tasks. These limits formed the basis for an investigation to identify which system components contribute most to this delay. The components contributing to the delay of audio and video have been measured and the major sources identified.
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Ingvaldsen, T., Klovning, E., Wilkins, M. (1998). A study of delay factors in CSCW applications and their importance. In: Plagemann, T., Goebel, V. (eds) Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services. IDMS 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1483. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0055314
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