Measurement system, method and program for measuring refinement rate of competitive system

• US 20050101033A1
• Filed: 10/04/2004
• Published: 05/12/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: National University Corporation Shizuoka University
• Original Assignee: National University Corporation Shizuoka University
• Inventors: Iida, Hiroyuki
• Application Number:
  US10/956,122
• Publication Number:
  US 20050101033A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 436/518
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/00 Video games, i.e. games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions gaming systems which provide a financial reward G07F17/32
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/12 involving interaction between a plurality of game devices, e.g. transmisison or distribution systems protocols for networked virtual reality, networked games H04L29/06034
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/30 Interconnection arrangements between game servers and game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/44 involving timing of operations, e.g. performing an action within a time slot
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/46 Computing the game score
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/798 for assessing skills or for ranking players, e.g. for generating a hall of fame computing the game score A63F13/46
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/535 for monitoring, e.g. of user parameters, terminal parameters, application parameters, network parameters
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/558 by assessing the players' skills or ranking
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/61 Score computation

Abstract

There is provided a measurement system for measuring a refinement rate of a competitive system, the system includes: input part for inputting competition data of the competitive system, said competition data, obtained by users between a beginning and end of the competition, including transition in information amount necessary to know a conclusion of the competition; first calculating part for obtaining an average completion time length D and an average degree of freedom B of the user and from said inputted competition data; and second calculating part for calculating a refinement rate S based on said obtained B and D.

Claims

1. A measurement system for measuring a refinement rate of a competitive system, said system comprising:

input means for inputting competition data of the competitive system, said competition data, obtained by users between a beginning and end of the competition, including transition in information amount necessary to know a conclusion of the competition;

first calculating means for obtaining an average completion time length D and an average degree of freedom B of the user and from said inputted competition data; and

second calculating means for calculating a refinement rate S based on said obtained B and D.

2. The measurement system according to claim 1, wherein said second calculation means calculates the refinement rate S using following equations:

S=B/D² or S=B^0.5/D.

3. The measurement system according to claim 1, wherein said, input means inputs the competition data by each user group,

and wherein said second calculating means calculates said refinement rate S as a skill level J by each user group.

4. The measurement system according to claim 1, wherein said competitive system is a board game;

said average degree of freedom B is an average number of possible moves between the beginning and the end of the game; and

said average completion time length D is an average number of actual moves played in the game.

13. The measurement system according to claim 2, wherein said competitive system is a board game;

said average degree of freedom B is an average number of possible moves between the beginning and the end of the game; and

said average completion time length D is an average number of actual moves played in the game.

14. The measurement system according to claim 3, wherein said competitive system is a board game;

said average degree of freedom B is an average number of possible moves between the beginning and the end of the game; and

said average completion time length D is an average number of actual moves played in the game.

5. A measurement method for measuring a refinement rate of a competitive system, the method comprising the steps of:

inputting competition data of the competitive system, said competition data, obtained by users between a beginning and end of the competition, including transition in information amount necessary to know a conclusion of the competition;

obtaining an average completion time length D and an average degree of freedom B of the user and from said inputted competition data using calculating means; and

calculating a refinement rate S based on said obtained B and D using calculating means.

6. The measurement method according to claim 5, wherein said calculating step calculates the refinement rate S using following equations:

S=B/D² or S=B^0.5/D.

7. The measurement method according to claim 5, wherein said inputting step inputs the competition data by each user group,

and wherein said calculating step calculates said refinement rate S as a skill level J by each user group.

8. The measurement method according to claim 5, wherein said competitive system is a board game;

said average degree of freedom B is an average number of possible moves between the beginning and the end of the game; and

said average completion time length D is an average number of actual moves played in the game.

15. The measurement method according to claim 6, wherein said competitive system is a board game;

said average degree of freedom B is an average number of possible moves between the beginning and the end of the game; and

said average completion time length D is an average number of actual moves played in the game.

16. The measurement method according to claim 7, wherein said competitive system is a board game;

said average degree of freedom B is an average number of possible moves between the beginning and the end of the game; and

said average completion time length D is an average number of actual moves played in the game.

9. A measurement program for executing a measurement method for measuring a refinement rate of a competitive system, the program comprising the steps of:

inputting competition data of the competitive system, said competition data, obtained by users between a beginning and end of the competition, including transition in information amount necessary to know a conclusion of the competition;

obtaining an average completion time length D and an average degree of freedom B of the user and from said inputted competition data; and

calculating a refinement rate S based on said obtained B and D.

10. The measurement program according to claim 9, wherein said calculating step calculates the refinement rate S using following equations:

S=B/D² or S=B^0.5/D.

11. The measurement program according to claim 9, wherein said inputting step inputs the competition data by each user group,

and wherein said calculating step calculates said refinement rate S as a skill level J by each user group.

12. The measurement program according to claim 9, wherein said competitive system is a board game;

said average degree of freedom B is an average number of possible moves between the beginning and the end of the game; and

said average completion time length D is an average number of actual moves played in the game.

17. The measurement program according to claim 10, wherein said competitive system is a board game;

said average degree of freedom B is an average number of possible moves between the beginning and the end of the game; and

said average completion time length D is an average number of actual moves played in the game.

18. The measurement program according to claim 11, wherein said competitive system is a board game;

said average degree of freedom B is an average number of possible moves between the beginning and the end of the game; and

said average completion time length D is an average number of actual moves played in the game.