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Stadler, Patrick ; Schmid, Andreas ; Wimmer, Raphael

DispLagBox: Simple and Replicable High-Precision Measurements of Display Latency

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Stadler, Patrick, Schmid, Andreas and Wimmer, Raphael (2020) DispLagBox: Simple and Replicable High-Precision Measurements of Display Latency. In: MuC '20: Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2020, September 6 - 9, 2020, Magdeburg Germany.

DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.43695


Abstract

The latency of a computing system affects users' performance. One important component of end-to-end latency is display lag - the time required to turn framebuffer contents into photons emitted by a computer screen. However, there is no well-documented and widely available method for measuring display lag.Thus, the effect of display lag is rarely considered in scientific studies and system ...

The latency of a computing system affects users' performance. One important component of end-to-end latency is display lag - the time required to turn framebuffer contents into photons emitted by a computer screen. However, there is no well-documented and widely available method for measuring display lag.Thus, the effect of display lag is rarely considered in scientific studies and system development. We developed DispLagBox, a simple open-source device for measuring display lag. It supports the International Display Measurements Standard but also offers additional metrics for characterizing display lag with a resolution of 0.1 ms. The device, based on a Raspberry Pi computer, measures the time between VSYNC and a change in brightness on the connected display. Repeated measurements can be conducted automatically, so that not only average latency but also latency distributions for each device can be reported. For most displays we tested, DispLagBox reports latencies that are close to those reported by a commercial black-box measurement device. Typically, the difference is 1 - 3 ms.



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Item typeConference or workshop item (Paper)
ISBN978-1-4503-7540-5
Title of BookMuC '20: Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2020
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Place of PublicationNew York, United States
Page Rangepp. 105-108
Date6 September 2020
Date of publication10 Sep 2020 07:44
InstitutionsLanguages and Literatures > Institut für Information und Medien, Sprache und Kultur (I:IMSK) > Lehrstuhl für Medieninformatik (Prof. Dr. Christian Wolff)
Informatics and Data Science > Department Human-Centered Computing > Lehrstuhl für Medieninformatik (Prof. Dr. Christian Wolff)

Languages and Literatures > Institut für Information und Medien, Sprache und Kultur (I:IMSK) > Lehrstuhl für Medieninformatik (Prof. Dr. Christian Wolff) > Physical-Digital Affordances (Dr. Raphael Wimmer)
Informatics and Data Science > Department Human-Centered Computing > Lehrstuhl für Medieninformatik (Prof. Dr. Christian Wolff) > Physical-Digital Affordances (Dr. Raphael Wimmer)
Informatics and Data Science > Department Human-Centered Computing > Physical-Digital Affordances (Dr. Raphael Wimmer)
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10.1145/3404983.3410015DOI
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https://hci.ur.de/projects/display_latencyProject
Keywordslatency, display, human-computer interaction
Dewey Decimal Classification000 Computer science, information & general works > 004 Computer science
StatusPublished
RefereedYes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of RegensburgYes
URN of the UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-436951
Item ID43695

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