[DC] Quality, Presence, and Emotions in Virtual Reality Communications

This doctoral thesis looks for the identification and evaluation of the factors that allow to improve the QoE of a remote client in telepresence and virtual reality scenarios. Specifically, quality and socioemotional concepts such as social and spatial presence, empathy, and emotions of being in a completely different place, as well as communicate and interact with people who are in that place. The main goals of my research are the analysis of the methodologies to evaluate video quality and socioemotional concepts, the implementation of additional tools using ML techniques to improve the QoE, and finally, experiments in real use cases.