How responsiveness affects players' perception in digital games

Proceedings, SAP 2012 - ACM Symposium on Applied Perception

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 33-37

  Jörg, Sophie ^a   Normoyle, Aline ^b   Safonova, Alla ^c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c DISNEY RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

control lag; digital games; latency; responsiveness; virtual characters

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL GAMES; FIRST PERSON SHOOTER; LATENCY; NETWORK LATENCIES; RESPONSIVENESS; ROLE-PLAYING GAME; VIRTUAL CHARACTER;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84865562979     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2338676.2338683     Document Type: Conference Paper

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