Ying Zhu's research while affiliated with Georgia State University and other places

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Serves, especially first serves, are very important in professional tennis. Servers choose their serve directions strategically to maximize their winning chances while trying to be unpredictable. On the other hand, returners try to predict serve directions to make good returns. The mind game between servers and returners is an important part of dec...
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OpenGL is the most widely used API and programming language in college-level computer graphics courses. However, OpenGL programs are difficult to comprehend and debug because they involve programming for both CPU and GPU and the data transfer between them. Modern OpenGL is a complex data flow machine with multiple programmable stages, and it is dif...
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In this paper, we describe the design of an interactive cartographic storytelling platform for the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre, a horrific incident that had a profound impact on the civil and human rights movement in the United States. This four-day event happened at various locations in downtown Atlanta and involved many people. Although multiple b...
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As video games and esports continue to grow in popularity, gaming injuries are also on the rise. In recent years, medical professionals have placed greater emphasis on preventing and treating gaming injuries and proposed specific gaming health guidelines. However, the game industry and game research community have not done enough to address the haz...
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Suspense is an important emotion for the enjoyment of games. Various methods have been proposed to manage suspense in games. Most existing works focus on managing suspense via storytelling or artifacts, such as sound effects. However, little work has been done in studying how to use gameplay to manage suspense. In this paper, we present a study in...
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This report documents the results found through surveys and interviews on how visualizations help the employees in their workspace. The objectives of this study were to get in-depth knowledge on what prepares an employee to have the right skill set in constructing an informative visualization as well as the tools and techniques that they use on the...
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Heuristic evaluation has been an important part of data visualization. Many heuristic rules and guidelines for evaluating data visualization have been proposed and reviewed. However, applying heuristic evaluation in practice is not trivial. First, the heuristic rules are discussed in different publications across different disciplines. There is no...

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... Suspense in the context of games has been somewhat explored, especially theoretically: it's been shown to increase game enjoyment [17], [18], and there has been work on modelling suspense within games, based on hope and fear [3], [19], [20]. However, measurements of suspense in games, and explorations of its mechanisms, are few in number [20], [21], and there has been no research to date within the genre of strategy games. ...