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On the Students' QoS-Awareness of Video Lectures
2016
Video lectures bring flexibility and enable distance learning in education. With the help of videos, educational organizations are able to serve a wider and more heterogeneous group of students. As streaming videos have become essential part of teaching in higher education, quality of service (QoS) issues should be taken more into consideration. However, systematic quality monitoring of video lecture delivery, to our knowledge, is rarely used in a way that would provide also the student with quality information. This paper describes our ongoing research on developing a streaming video quality evaluation tool integrated in a learning environment that our master’s students use. The tool serve…
2D platformu spēļu dizains
2018
Neskatoties uz neierobežotajām video spēļu izveides iespējām, aizvien vēl spēļu pasaulē ir pieprasītas 2D spēles, kas variē no vienkārša abstrakta līdz smalki izstrādātam multfilmu grafiskajam stilam. Diplomdarba „2D platformu spēļu dizains” mērķis - izveidot jaunu 2D platformu spēles konceptu ar oriģināliem spēles tēliem un stāstu. Pētāmā problēma – nepietiekama informācija par 2D platformu spēļu daudzveidību un grafiskā dizaina iezīmēm. Darba teorētiskajā daļā tiek pētīta literatūra un avoti par videospēļu dizaina attīstību un raksturīgākajiem elementiem. Empīriskajā daļā, izmantojot kontentanalīzi, tiek pētīts spēļu grafiskais stils saistībā ar spēles novērtējumu lielākajā interneta vide…
Piracy versus Netflix : Subscription Video on Demand Dissatisfaction as an Antecedent of Piracy
2018
Drawing from cognitive dissonance and neutralization theories, this study seeks to improve the understanding on consumer decision-making between the current legal and illegal video consumption alternatives. We develop and test a research model featuring Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD) satisfaction and various dimensions of SVOD quality as antecedents of video piracy neutralizations and attitudes. Based on results from an online survey among Finnish SVOD users, SVOD satisfaction is primarily determined by content quality, and has a small negative effect on attitude toward piracy through decreased piracy neutralization. However, it appears that current legal services are not seen as true …
Smart camera design for realtime High Dynamic Range imaging
2011
International audience; Many camera sensors suffer from limited dynamic range. The result is that there is a lack of clear details in displayed images and videos. This paper describes our approach to generate high dynamic range (HDR) from an image sequence while modifying exposure times for each new frame. For this purpose, we propose an FPGA-based architecture that can produce a real-time high dynamic range video from successive image acquisition. Our hardware platform is build around a standard low dynamic range CMOS sensor and a Virtex 5 FPGA board. The CMOS sensor is a EV76C560 provided by e2v. This 1.3 Megapixel device offers novel pixel integration/readout modes and embedded image pre…
Reconstructing the Gothic in games and gaming : Gothic monsters and ideology in the story world and player experiences of Fallout 3
2018
This dissertation research investigates the deployment of Gothic elements in digital games and player experiences of Gothic monsters. The Gothic is a rich and popular resource for games that, through representations of monstrosities and injustice, aims to induce in players a pleasurable feeling of discomfort, yet also reflects contemporary anxieties. The dissertation comprises three case studies of which the first two are close readings of the action role-playing game Fallout 3 and the third discourse analysis of transcribed player narration from Let’s Play (LP) gameplay videos. More specifically, the case studies discuss the dual role of Gothic monstrosities as a cause and consequence of t…