Study on the Discomfort by Control Lag in Digital Games

Abstract

One of the elements that makes the game fun is sense of agency. That is a feeling that player's actions are consistent with the results. In online games, there is a Lag that the operation and result do not match due to communication delay. At this time, we thought that the sense of agency was lost and the fun of the game was lost too. We implemented an experimental game and verify the relationship between lag and sense of agency. As a result, the player felt discomfort due to the lag, and the recognition of the delay occurred at the lag during 7.9 to 14.8 frames with a 95% confidence interval.