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2025

Toward Understanding Display Size for FPS Esports Aiming
Arjun Madhusudan, Josef Spjut, Benjamin Watson, Seth Schneider, Ben Boudaoud, Joohwan Kim
Pushing the Limits? Frame Rate Benefits to Players for up to 500 Hz in First Person Shooter Games
Samin Shahriar Tokey, Ben Boudaoud, Joohwan Kim, Josef Spjut, Mark Claypool

2024

Learning to Move Like Professional Counter-Strike Players
David Durst, F. Xie, V. Sarukkai, Brennan Shacklett, Iuri Frosio, Chen Tessler, Joohwan Kim, C. Taylor, G. Bernstein, S. Choudhury, P. Hanrahan,, Kayvon Fatahalian
Variable Frame Timing Affects Perception of Smoothness in First-Person Gaming
Devi Klein, Josef Spjut, Ben Boudaoud, Joohwan Kim
Studying Esports Competition: Piloting Methodology for User Studies During Tournaments
Arjun Madhusudan, Josef Spjut, Ben Boudaoud, Joohwan Kim, Benjamin Watson
On Smoothly Varying Frame Timing in First-Person Gaming
UC Santa Barbara and NVIDIA, Josef Spjut, Ben Boudaoud, Joohwan Kim
The Effects of Network Latency on the Peeker's Advantage in First-person Shooter Games
Samin Shahriar Tokey, Zesheng Chen, Colin Mettler, Dexuan Tang, Ben Boudaoud, Joohwan Kim, Josef Spjut, Mark Claypool
Do Action Video Game Players Search Faster Than Non-Players?
Zoe (Jing) Xu, Josef Spjut, Ben Boudaoud, Simona Buetti, Alejandro Lleras, Ruth Rosenholtz
Is Less More? Rendering for Esports
Benjamin Watson, Josef Spjut, Joohwan Kim, Byungjoo Lee, Mijin Yoo, Peter Shirley, Rulon Raymond

2023

Constant Field of View Display Size Effects on First-Person Aiming Time
Josef Spjut, Ben Boudaoud, Joohwan Kim
Rethinking Display Requirements for Esports and High Interactivity Applications
Joohwan Kim, Josef Spjut, Ben Boudaoud, Benjamin Watson, Turner Whitted
Less is More: Rendering for Esports
Benjamin Watson, Joohwan Kim, Josef Spjut, Peter Shirley, Byungjoo Lee
Mouse Sensitivity in First-person Targeting Tasks
Ben Boudaoud, Josef Spjut, Joohwan Kim

2022

Display Size and Targeting Performance: Small Hurts, Large May Help
Joohwan Kim, Arjun Madhusudan, Benjamin Watson, Ben Boudaoud, Roland Tarrazo, Josef Spjut
Esports and expertise: what competitive gaming can teach us about mastery
Ben Boudaoud, Josef Spjut, Joohwan Kim, Arjun Madhusudan, Benjamin Watson
Mouse Sensitivity in First-person Targeting Tasks
Ben Boudaoud, Josef Spjut, Joohwan Kim
The Esports Frontier: Rendering, Interaction and Display
Benjamin Watson, Josef Spjut, Byungjoo Lee, Greg Ward
Image Features Influence Reaction Time: A Learned Probabilistic Perceptual Model for Saccade Latency
Budmonde Duinkharjav, Praneeth Chakravarthula, Rachel Brown, Anjul Patney, Qi Sun
Best Technical Paper, SIGGRAPH 2022
FirstPersonScience: An Open Source Tool for Studying FPS Esports Aiming
Ben Boudaoud, Josef Spjut, Pyarelal Knowles, Arjun Madhusudan, Joohwan Kim
Esports meets human-computer interaction
Simone Kriglstein, Anna Lisa Martin-Niedecken, Josef Spjut, Nicole B. Damen, Selen Turkay, Anders Drachen

2021

Gaming at Warp Speed: Improving Aiming with Late Warp
Ben Boudaoud, Pyarelal Knowles, Joohwan Kim, Josef Spjut
Weakly-Supervised Physically Unconstrained Gaze Estimation
Rakshit Kothari, Shalini De Mello, Umar Iqbal, Wonmin Byeon, Seonwook Park, Jan Kautz
Oral
A Case Study of First Person Aiming at Low Latency for Esports
Josef Spjut, Ben Boudaoud, Joohwan Kim
Robust Vision-Based Cheat Detection in Competitive Gaming
Aditya Jonnalagadda, Iuri Frosio, Seth Schenider, Morgan McGuire, Joohwan Kim

2020

Post-Render Warp with Late Input Sampling Improves Aiming Under High Latency Conditions
Joohwan Kim, Pyarelal Knowles, Josef Spjut, Ben Boudaoud, Morgan McGuire

2019

Latency of 30 ms Benefits First Person Targeting Tasks More Than Refresh Rate Above 60 Hz
Josef Spjut, Ben Boudaoud, Kamran Binaee, Jonghyun Kim, Zander Majercik, Morgan McGuire, David Luebke, Joohwan Kim
FirstPersonScience: Quantifying Psychophysics for First Person Shooter Tasks
Josef Spjut, Ben Boudaoud, Kamran Binaee, Zander Majercik, Morgan McGuire, Joohwan Kim
Esports Arms Race: Latency and Refresh Rate for Competitive Gaming Tasks
Joohwan Kim, Josef Spjut, Morgan McGuire, Zander Majercik, Ben Boudaoud, Rachel Albert, David Luebke
Temporally Dense Ray Tracing
Pontus Ebelin, Jim Nilsson, Marco Salvi, Josef Spjut, Tomas Akenine-Möller