Proposta de dissertação do MEI Título: Game Controller Middleware and Game Application for Networks of Mobile Phones Proponente(s): Hervé Paulino Créditos: 42 ECTS Área científica: Computer Systems and Networks Início preferencial: Qualquer semestre URL: Já estão em curso trabalhos preliminares executados pelo alunos: Breve descrição: Tha goal of this thesis is to develop a middleware for collaborative game control, where several users may use their mobile phone to (collaboratively) control a given game character or object. Replication will be used to locally cluster user commands, and relay these to the game engine. Consider a room with several tenths of persons. We may assign each of these groups of tenths to a replica, so that communication is essentially local and, hence, can scale with the number of users. Users will use the mobile phone’s gyroscope and, eventually other sensors, to convey a simple command (up, down, left, right) to the game. With this simple framework we will able to control all kinds of games. The main challenges will be: • latency, operations will have to arrive to the game engine almost instantaneously, so that the game experience is real, and • make the user experience meaningful, i.e. the user has the perception that he/she is contributing to the character’s actions. Observações: