Game Theory and Showering

Here is a recently-posted paper about game theory and showering:

arXiv:0801.1573
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:32:41 GMT (62kb)

Title: Taking a shower in Youth Hostels: risks and delights of heterogeneity
Authors: Christina Matzke and Damien Challet
Categories: physics.soc-ph
Comments: 15 pages, 6 figures
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Tuning one's shower in some hotels may turn into a challenging coordination
game with imperfect information. The temperature sensitivity increases with
the
number of agents, making the problem possibly unlearnable. Because there is in
practice a finite number of possible tap positions, identical agents are
unlikely to reach even approximately their favorite water temperature.
Heterogeneity allows some agents to reach much better temperatures, at the
cost
of higher risk.
\\ ( http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.1573 , 62kb)


By the way, the title of the paper sent my mind in a bad direction. Also, I suspect that the authors neglected to include the effects on the dynamics of playing The Ride.