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CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
The Formation of Task-Oriented Groups: Exploring Combat Activities in Online Games
— Advanced communication technologies enable strangers to work together on the same tasks or projects in virtual environments. Understanding the formation of taskoriented groups ...
Yun Huang, Mengxiao Zhu, Jing Wang, Nishith Pathak...
MOBICOM
2012
ACM
11 years 11 months ago
Distinguishing users with capacitive touch communication
As we are surrounded by an ever-larger variety of post-PC devices, the traditional methods for identifying and authenticating users have become cumbersome and time-consuming. In t...
Tam Vu, Akash Baid, Simon Gao, Marco Gruteser, Ric...
SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Matchmaking for online games and other latency-sensitive P2P systems
– The latency between machines on the Internet can dramatically affect users’ experience for many distributed applications. Particularly, in multiplayer online games, players s...
Sharad Agarwal, Jacob R. Lorch
DSN
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Reducing the Cost of Group Communication with Semantic View Synchrony
View Synchrony (VS) is a powerful abstraction in the design and implementation of dependable distributed systems. By ensuring that processes deliver the same set of messages in ea...
José Orlando Pereira, Luís Rodrigues...
DIGRA
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Albert Goes Narrative Contracting
RPG’s (Role Playing Games) and improvisational theatre have some obvious similarities. Both require the participants to work together in real-time to construct dynamic narrative...
Ken Newman, Robert Grigg