Electrical and Computer Engineering Publications
A RESTFUL service for aggregating state-based user performance data in simulator scenarios
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2-24-2017
Journal
2016 IEEE Games, Entertainment, Media Conference, GEM 2016
URL with Digital Object Identifier
10.1109/GEM.2016.7864519
Abstract
Simulators often implement their own solution for aggregating and saving user performance data. Aggregating user performance data from simulators that execute on many different machines can be a pain for researchers and the data is often saved in one format that can be hard to translate to others. A framework is proposed to provide re-usable scenario initialization and user performance data aggregation functionality to simulators. A RESTful web service is proposed to aggregate and store the user performance data in the cloud for later retrieval for analysis and evaluation. Two simulator clients built with Unity3D are developed for validation of the web service. Preliminary results show that the web service offers good performance and data integrity, but is still a work in progress.