The emergence of cloud technology has led to cloud-based video game streaming (cloud gaming for short), which provides access to games without expensive hardware. However, cloud gaming is susceptible to variations in latency that impact performance and user experience. A better understanding of these effects can help build systems to mitigate them. This project explores the impacts of jitter frequency and magnitude on user experience. Four games, Bloons Tower Defense 6, Hollow Knight, Hades, and CS:GO, were tested by having participants rate gameplay experience under various jitter conditions. From this experiment, jitter magnitude was found to have a significant, negative effect on user experience, while jitter frequency was found to be inconclusive.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Oliveira, Michael
• Flanagan, Thomas
• Nakagawa, Carter

Subject

• Project-Based Learning
• Computing

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 91571
• E-project-030623-152920

Keyword

• Cloud Gaming
• Latency
• Quality of Experience
• Jitter

Advisor

• Claypool, Mark L.

Year

• 2023

Sponsor

• Google Stadia

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 9 - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Date created

• 2023-03-06

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Source

• E-project-030623-152920

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2023-04-19