Abstract: I will share the story of esports research at NVIDIA. We started with a human subject study that showed latency matters more than frame rate, which inspired Reflex, NVIDIA’s one of the most successful esports products. Since then we continued to study various aspects of gamer performance in competitive gaming: mouse sensitivity, latency reduction techniques, anti-cheat, display size effects, etc. I will overview these studies and share our perspective for future esports research.

 

Short Bio: Joohwan Kim is a research manager at NVIDIA Research leading Nvidia's Human Performance and Experience research group based in Santa Clara, California. Joohwan received his Ph.D. from Seoul National University in 2009, and was a postdoctoral fellow in University of California, Berkeley until 2015.

Joohwan's current interests are in understanding and improving viewer experience of various types of displays, especially regarding esports.