Influence of network delay on ensemble application

Haptic device has been brought to public attention. We are developing networked music ensemble system with haptic devices. Pairs of user connected network play drums. In such systems, the impairment of network QoS such as network delay or packet loss cause degradation of collaboration performance among users. The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of network delay and to examine the effect of distributed synchronization and media synchronization, and to investigate role of haptics for this application in such haptic audio communication system.