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What does Pokémon Go teach us about geography? [PDF]
Geographica Helvetica, 2017 Pokémon Go, a highly popular, recently launched augmented-reality-based video game, fosters players' interaction with the real world. In this commentary we elaborate on how location-based games, such as Pokémon Go, have provided insights into the ...
H. Gong, R. Hassink, G. Maus
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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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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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Sensors, 2019 Recently, the growing ubiquity of location-based service (LBS) technology has increased the likelihood of users’ privacy breaches due to the exposure of their real-life information to untrusted third parties.
Mulugeta Kassaw Tefera, Xiaolong Yang
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Multimodal Technologies and InteractionThis study investigates how remote multiplayer gameplay, enabled through Augmented Reality (AR), transforms spatial decision-making and enhances player experience in a location-based augmented reality game (LBARG).
Yasas Sri Wickramasinghe +3 more
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The Gilmorehill Mystery: A Location-Based Game for Campus Exploration [PDF]
, 2021 The University of Glasgow accommodates a large number of new students every year. Arriving at a new campus can seem daunting at first, as it is always a challenge to navigate a university’s many buildings and pathways. Although in-person and self-guided online campus tours are currently offered by the University, in-person tours require advance booking
Kieran Swedlund, Matthew Barr
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Interweaving mobile games with everyday life [PDF]
, 2006 We introduce a location--based game called Feeding Yoshi that provides an example of seamful design, in which key characteristics of its underlying technologies-the coverage and security characteristics of WiFi-are exposed as a core element of gameplay ...
Tennent, P. +21 more
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Chasing the Fugitive on Campus: Designing a Location-based Game for Collaborative Play [PDF]
, 2007 We report on our experiences with building and deploying a collaborative location-based mobile game. The Fugitive is a multiplayer game that is played using mobile TabletPCs in a university campus environment.
Jeffrey, Phillip +6 more
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On Metrics for Location-Aware Games
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2017 Metrics are important and well-known tools to measure users’ behavior in games, and gameplay in general. Particularities of location-aware games—a class of games where the player’s location plays a central role-demand specific support in metrics to ...
Luis E. Rodríguez-Pupo +2 more
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A Location–Time-Aware Factorization Machine Based on Fuzzy Set Theory for Game Perception
Applied Sciences, 2022 Game user perception is of great significance for game developers and network operators for improving service quality and operational efficiency. At present, the most common approach is to use the linear model that considers only the impact of network ...
Xiaoxia Xie +3 more
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