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RealTimeChess: Lessons from a Participatory Design Process for a Collaborative Multi-Touch, Multi-User Game
We report on a long-term participatory design process during which we designed and improved RealTimeChess, a collaborative but competitive game that is played using touch input by multiple people on a tabletop display. During the design process we integrated concurrent input from all players and pace control, allowing us to steer the interaction along a continuum between high-paced simultaneous and low-paced turn-based gameplay. In addition, we integrated tutorials for teaching interaction techniques, mechanisms to control territoriality, remote interaction, and alert feedback. Integrating these mechanism during the participatory design process allowed us to examine their effects in detail, revealing for instance effects of the competitive setting on the perception of awareness as well as territoriality. More generally, the resulting application provided us with a testbed to study interaction on shared tabletop surfaces and yielded insights important for other time-critical or attention-demanding applications.
Integrable Matrix Product States from boundary integrability
We consider integrable Matrix Product States (MPS) in integrable spin chains
and show that they correspond to "operator valued" solutions of the so-called
twisted Boundary Yang-Baxter (or reflection) equation. We argue that the
integrability condition is equivalent to a new linear intertwiner relation,
which we call the "square root relation", because it involves half of the steps
of the reflection equation. It is then shown that the square root relation
leads to the full Boundary Yang-Baxter equations. We provide explicit solutions
in a number of cases characterized by special symmetries. These correspond to
the "symmetric pairs" and , where
in each pair the first and second elements are the symmetry groups of the spin
chain and the integrable state, respectively. These solutions can be considered
as explicit representations of the corresponding twisted Yangians, that are new
in a number of cases. Examples include certain concrete MPS relevant for the
computation of one-point functions in defect AdS/CFT.Comment: 33 pages, v2: minor corrections, references added, v3: minor
modifications, v4: minor modification
The continuum limit of spin chains
Building on our previous work for and we explore
systematically the continuum limit of gapless vertex models and
spin chains. We find the existence of three possible regimes. Regimes I and II
for are related with Toda, and described by
compact bosons. Regime I for is related with
Toda and involves compact bosons, while regime II is related instead with
super Toda, and involves in addition a single Majorana fermion.
The most interesting is regime III, where {\sl non-compact} degrees of freedom
appear, generalising the emergence of the Euclidean black hole CFT in the
case. For we find a continuum limit made of
compact and non-compact bosons, while for we find
compact and non-compact bosons. We also find deep relations between
in regime III and the gauged WZW models .Comment: 43 pages, 4 figure
Non compact continuum limit of two coupled Potts models
We study two -state Potts models coupled by the product of their energy
operators, in the regime where the coupling is relevant. A
particular choice of weights on the square lattice is shown to be equivalent to
the integrable vertex model. It corresponds to a selfdual system of
two antiferromagnetic Potts models, coupled ferromagnetically. We derive the
Bethe Ansatz equations and study them numerically for two arbitrary twist
angles. The continuum limit is shown to involve two compact bosons and one non
compact boson, with discrete states emerging from the continuum at appropriate
twists. The non compact boson entails strong logarithmic corrections to the
finite-size behaviour of the scaling levels, the understanding of which allows
us to correct an earlier proposal for some of the critical exponents. In
particular, we infer the full set of magnetic scaling dimensions (watermelon
operators) of the Potts model.Comment: 33 pages, 10 figures v2: reference added, minor typo corrected v3:
revised version for publication in JSTAT: section 3.1 added, some technical
content moved to appendi
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