Verbal coordination in first person shooter games

• Main Authors: TANG, Anthony, MASSEY, Jonathan, WONG, Nelson, REILLY, Derek, EDWARDS, W. Keith
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• Subjects: collaborative virtual environments; cve; first person shooter; fps; verbal coordination; voice communication; Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7924
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We explore how expert First Person Shooter (FPS) players coordinate actions using a shared voice channel. Our findings emphasize the importance of the temporality and spatiality of these tactical verbal communications (“callouts”). From here, we outline potential designs to mitigate problems in the...