Secrets of gosu: Understanding physical combat skills of professional players in first-person shooters

Eunji Park; Sangyoon Lee; Auejin Ham; Minyeop Choi; Sunjun Kim; Byungjoo Lee

doi:10.1145/3411764.3445217

Secrets of gosu: Understanding physical combat skills of professional players in first-person shooters

Eunji Park, Sangyoon Lee, Auejin Ham, Minyeop Choi, Sunjun Kim, Byungjoo Lee

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

13 Scopus citations

Abstract

In frst-person shooters (FPS), professional players (a.k.a., Gosu) outperform amateur players. The secrets behind the performance of professional FPS players have been debated in online communities with many conjectures; however, attempts of scientifc verifcation have been limited. We addressed this conundrum through a data-collection study of the gameplay of eight professional and eight amateur players in the commercial FPS Counter-Strike: Global Ofensive. The collected data cover behavioral data from six sensors (motion capture, eye tracker, mouse, keyboard, electromyography armband, and pulse sensor) and in-game data (player data and event logs). We examined conjectures in four categories: aiming, character movement, physicality, and device and settings. Only 6 out of 13 conjectures were supported with statistically sufcient evidence.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Making Waves, Combining Strengths
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450380966
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445217
State	Published - 6 May 2021
Event	2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths, CHI 2021 - Virtual, Online, Japan Duration: 8 May 2021 → 13 May 2021

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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Conference	2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths, CHI 2021
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Virtual, Online
Period	8/05/21 → 13/05/21

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Keywords

Datasets
E-sports
Frst person shooters
Games
Performance metrics

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Park, E., Lee, S., Ham, A., Choi, M., Kim, S., & Lee, B. (2021). Secrets of gosu: Understanding physical combat skills of professional players in first-person shooters. In CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445217

Park, Eunji ; Lee, Sangyoon ; Ham, Auejin et al. / Secrets of gosu : Understanding physical combat skills of professional players in first-person shooters. CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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Park, E, Lee, S, Ham, A, Choi, M, Kim, S & Lee, B 2021, Secrets of gosu: Understanding physical combat skills of professional players in first-person shooters. in CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery, 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths, CHI 2021, Virtual, Online, Japan, 8/05/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445217

Secrets of gosu: Understanding physical combat skills of professional players in first-person shooters. / Park, Eunji; Lee, Sangyoon; Ham, Auejin et al.
CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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