Geometric Compensation
Latency compensation technique through modeling user performance in MTA tasks with latency
Publication
Lee, I., Kim, S., & Lee, B., Geometrically Compensating Effect of End-to-End Latency in Moving-Target Selection Games
Appears in: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Paper keywords: Latency compensation; moving-target selection
Overview
Problem Statement
Effects of unintended latency on gamer performance have been reported. End-to-end latency can be corrected by post-input manipulation of activation times, but this gives the player unnatural gameplay experience.
Solution
We first built and validated a predictive model that can predict user performance in MTS (moving-target selection) tasks. Using the novel model, we developed a novel compensation method for the latency effects by adjusting the game's geometry design. Our method can keep the user's error rate constant even if the end-to-end latency of the system changes.
Video
Following is the longer version (full video) of the teaser video uploaded by ACM.