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The mobility laws of location-based games [PDF]
EPJ Data Science, 2021 AbstractMobility is a fundamental characteristic of human society that shapes various aspects of our everyday interactions. This pervasiveness of mobility makes it paramount to understand factors that govern human movement and how it varies across individuals.
Leonardo Tonetto +5 more
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Community Generated Location Based Gaming [PDF]
Electronic Workshops in Computing, 2010 This paper presents the concept for community driven Location Based Games (LBG) that involve actively exploring and discovering public spaces similar to the characteristics seen in Geocaching. The game demonstrated in this paper attempts to utilise the motivations and overcome the limitations of existing Location Based Games.
Lochrie, Mark, Lund, Kate, Coulton, Paul
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Issues in the Development of Location-Based Games [PDF]
International Journal of Computer Games Technology, 2011 As new and more powerful mobile devices arrive, such as smartphones, tablets and PDAs, so do new ways of interaction emerge for the users and developers to explore. These devices allow for the creation of never-before-seen applications, using the broad range of inputs and sensors these devices integrate (such as accelerometers, light sensors ...
João Tiago Pinheiro Neto Jacob +1 more
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Requirements for Location-Based Games for Social Interaction
IEEE Transactions on Games, 2022 Social interaction is part of the fabric of society, and is essential to challenge many types of social barriers. Location-based games provide a means to foster such interaction in local communities. The design of such games is currently based primarily on designer experience and on literature on game design in general, and not on an understanding of ...
Xavier Fonseca +3 more
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Simplifying location-based serious game authoring [PDF]
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality, 2017 Pervasive gaming has been a field of exploration for the gaming industry the recent years. With the exceptional success of Pokémon GO and some others such as Ingress users are more than ever ready to experiment with games that are more focused into their actions and their playing contexts.
Víctor Manuel Pérez-Colado +4 more
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Learning analytics for location-based serious games [PDF]
2018 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2018 Pervasive gaming has experimented a huge commercial growth with location-based game successes such as Pokémon GO or Ingress. The serious game industry has an opportunity to take advantage of location-based mechanics to better connect games with the real world, creating more authentic immersive learning environments.
Victor M. Perez-Colado +4 more
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Technical cheating prevention in location-based games
International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies '21, 2021 Online multiplayer game developers have plenty of motivation to prevent technical cheating in their games. In the case of location-based games (LBGs), in addition to the usual anti-cheat measures, developers need to be able to verify players’ location sensor data.
Samuli Laato +3 more
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Development and Usability of a Location-based Game. [PDF]
Interaction Design and Architecture(s)Location-based games (LBG) incorporate players’ location as their main game element. Therefore, they are played in the physical world by turning every place into a playground. Due to the pervasive nature of LBGs, usability evaluation can differ from the other game genres.
Faraz Badali Naghadeh, Kursat Cagiltay
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Adaptivity and safety in location-based games
2017 9th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications (VS-Games), 2017 Location-based games require, among other things, obtaining or computing information regarding the players' physical activity and real-world context. Additionally, ensuring that the players are assigned challenges that are adequate and safe for the current context (both physical and spatial) is also important, as it can improve both the gaming ...
João Tiago Pinheiro Neto Jacob +3 more
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Location-Based Games For Learning
, 2018 Research argues that digital educational games have the potential to make learning more interesting and more effective. However, creating engaging game-based learning experiences remains challenging. To address this challenge, the authors present the game authoring pipeline of the Beaconing Platform that enables the construction of location-based ...
Stanescu, Ioana A. +6 more
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