The role of human influence factors on overall listening experience

Walton, T; Evans, M

Abstract

Overall listening experience (OLE) is an evaluation measure specific to the evaluation of audio, which aims to include all
possible factors that may influence listeners’ ratings of stimuli. As with quality of experience in general, OLE ratings are user
dependent. Previous research has shown that listeners can be categorised by how much their OLE is influenced by content
and technical audio quality respectively. In this article, we expand on this knowledge by investigating correlations between
a range of human influence factors and the degree to which a listener is influenced by content and technical audio quality.
This was done by means of a web-based experiment involving 58 participants from a range of backgrounds. Results show that
listener type is significantly correlated with a range of psychographic variables and that the attitudinal measure ‘competence’
is the most suitable variable to be used as a predictor of listener type. As well as these results having direct applications such
as tailoring systems and services to the needs of specific user groups, the results presented add to the understanding of how
human factors can influence quality of experience in general.

Citation

Walton, T., & Evans, M. (2018). The role of human influence factors on overall listening experience. Quality and User Experience, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s41233-017-0015-4

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Jan 13, 2018
• Publication Date: Jan 13, 2018
• Deposit Date: May 27, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: May 27, 2022
• Journal: Quality and User Experience
• Print ISSN: 2366-0139
• Electronic ISSN: 2366-0147
• Publisher: Springer
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 1
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41233-017-0015-4
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41233-017-0015-4
• Additional Information: Funders : Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC); Grant Number: EP/L505560/1