Best Paper Award
The CS department is very pleased to announce that a paper by students Nathan Sheldon, Eric Girard, and Seth Borg, with Profs. Mark Claypool and Emmanuel Agu, titled "The Effect of Latency on User Performance in Warcraft III" received the Best Paper Award at the NetGames Conference, held at Redwood City, CA, this month.
The paper can be found online at http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/papers/war3/.
The paper was based on work done by the students for their MQP. The project was grounded on the fact that interactive network games have the potential to be affected by delays (known as "latency") during data transmission across the network. As there had been no systematic investigation of the effects of latency on Real Time Strategy games, they designed and conducted user studies that measured its impact on user performance in Warcraft III, a popular game. They concluded that while users noticed very high latency it had a negligible effect on the game's outcome.
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