Duration Neglect in Multi-episodic Perceived Quality

In this paper, the occurrence of duration neglect for multi-episodic perceived quality is investigated. Such an effect has been observed for retrospective judgments of individual experiences, showing that the actual duration of exceptional parts of an experience are not reflected in retrospective judgments. Duration neglect has, so far, only received limited attention for perceived quality, but represents an important aspect especially for multi-episodic usage. Here, it is not known if a duration neglect occurs and thus the actual duration of an individual usage episode affects judgments on multi-episodic perceived quality. The results of a subjective experiment are reported that investigated the occurrence of duration neglect in one session of multiepisodic use. In this experiment, the duration of a single degraded episode was varied between two multi-episodic conditions. The results show that a duration neglect occurs for the multi-episodic judgments as well as the episodic judgments of this usage episode.