Methodology to Assess Quality, Presence, Empathy, Attitude, and Attention in 360-degree Videos for Immersive Communications

This paper proposes a methodology to assess video quality, spatial and social presence, empathy, attitude, attention in 360-degree videos for immersive communications. The is validated an experiment which simulates communication environment where participants attend three conversations of different genre (everyday conversation, educational, discussion) from actor observer acquisition perspectives. We consider experimental conditions: (A) visualizing rating the perceptual quality contents Head-Mounted Display (HMD), (B) HMD, (C) HMD can see their hands take notes. In all conditions visualize same videos, designed acquired context international experiences. Fifty-four were evenly distributed among A, B, C taking into account experience backgrounds (working or studying foreign country), obtaining balanced diverse sample participants. Finally, annotated dataset, Student Experiences Around World dataset (SEAW-dataset), obtained made publicly available research community.