Daniel Recoskie, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Rina Wehbe, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Why do we care if our teammates are not human? This study seeks to uncover whether or not the perception of other players as human or artificial entities can influence player experience. We use both deception and a between-participants blind study design to reduce bias in our experiment.
Michael Abebe, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Cloud storage systems typically choose between replicating or erasure encoding data to provide fault tolerance. Replication ensures that data can be accessed from a single site but incurs a much higher storage overhead, which is a costly downside for large-scale storage systems. Erasure coding has a lower storage requirement but relies on encoding/decoding and distributed data retrieval that can result in increased response times.
Rina Wehbe, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Designing difficulty levels in platformer games is a challenge for game designers. It is important because design decisions that affect difficulty also directly affect player experience. Consequently, design strategies for balancing game difficulty are discussed by both academics and game designers.
Ashvin Goel, Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University of Toronto
Lesley Istead, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
In this talk, we present a method for producing stylized stereoscopic 3D (S3D) line drawings or sketches from S3D photos.
Our method renders contours and silhouettes found in the disparity map and addresses some of the issues that arise when working with 8-bit disparity. Finally, we add shading to our stylized S3D line drawings to improve the perception of depth and surface shape.
Ruoyu (Fish) Wang, PhD candidate
SecLab, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
Trevor Brown, Postdoctoral fellow
Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
Dead canary in the coalmine: We just lost the web in the war on general purpose computing
