Evaluating the Quality of Experience of haptic-based applications through mathematical modeling

Advanced user interfaces are being incorporated into multimedia applications including haptic interfaces which provide a sense of touch to the user. There is a need for a user-based assessment of these newer types of applications especially that the multimedia community is starting to focus on the Quality of Experience (QoE) as a new paradigm for evaluation. This paper focuses on a mathematical-centered user evaluation of haptic-based applications. Using a haptic game entitled Balance Ball, users' data were collected. The data were standardized and then used to calculate QoE values through a mathematical model. The results were compared with the overall users' ratings. The results are promising with a significant correlation values and a moderate average relative error rate.