Steven Schmidt 
Assessing the Quality of Experience of Cloud Gaming Services [PDF ebook] 

Introduction.- Quality Factors and Feature Space of Cloud Gaming Services.- Methods for Assessing Gaming Qo E.- Passive Video Quality Assessment Using Lab and Remote Testing.- Interactive Assessment of Gaming Qo E Using Crowdsourcing.- Development of the Gaming Input Quality Scale (GIPS).- Impact and Classification of the Game Content.- Empirical Investigation of the Cloud Gaming Taxonomy.- Conclusion and Outlook.

Steven Schmidt received his master’s degree in electrical engineering at the Technische Universität Berlin with a major in Communication Systems. From 2016 to 2021, he was a research assistant at the Quality and Usability Lab where he got his Ph D in the field of Quality of Experience in Cloud Gaming under the supervision of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Möller. In 2022, he joined Sony Play Station as a researcher and data scientist. His research interests include assessment methods for gaming Qo E, the identification of influencing factors as well as developing models to predict gaming Qo E of cloud gaming services. To advance this field of research, he published a variety of articles at multimedia conferences and submitted over 20 contributions about gaming-related activities at the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) resulting in three Recommendations.