Final Report: Evaluation Taxonomy for Networked Multimedia Systems (ETNA)

The ETNA project explored the audio and video quality requirements for a range of networked realtime multimedia applications. When the project began, there was little applicable knowledge in the human factors community as to the specific audio-visual requirements that different sorts of communicative tasks might demand. The ETNA project showed that these differ according to specific task and user characteristics. A systematic taxonomy was developed which characterised these factors and a wide range of evaluation techniques were developed and applied in novel ways.