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Seamful Design for Location-Based Mobile Games
2005Seamful design is a new approach to reveal and exploit inevitable technical limitations in Ubiquitous Computing technology rather than hiding them. In this paper we want to introduce its general ideas and apply them to the design of location-aware games for mobile phones.
Gregor Broll, Steve Benford
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A Review on Location Based Services for Mobile Games
Proceedings of the 20th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics, 2016As mobile users take their devices with them everywhere, adding location-awareness and incorporating geographic data into the applications is an important way to keep users connected to the surrounding world and people nearby, enhancing the overall contextual experience. Through the use of sensors like GPS, accelerometer, gyroscope and more on a mobile
Spyros Xanthopoulos, Stelios Xinogalos
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Applying and Facilitating Serious Location-Based Games
2020The popularity of location-based games continues unabated and is benefiting from the increasing use of mobile end devices and advantageous general conditions, such as the Internet of Things and the Smart City paradigm. This enormous potential of engagement should also be tapped for serious location-based games, i.e.
Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge +3 more
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GeoGuild: Location-Based Framework for Mobile Games
2013 International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, 2013Smartphones' performance is in sustained growth, and their geolocation capabilities bring opportunities for developers to explore new aspects of social gaming. We propose a multiplatform framework that can give a social side to a wide range of mobile games.
Georgia Ionescu +2 more
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Player Adaptivity and Safety in Location-Based Games
2018Location-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 Jacob +4 more
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Designing Serious Mobile Location-Based Games
2019The technical requirements of mobile location-based games have been met sufficiently well to make location-based mobile games an everyday object. Games like Ingress or Pokemon GO have experienced a huge popularity. Hence, the question arises how the obvious attraction of these games can be used to achieve goals other than entertainment, such as ...
Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge +3 more
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The Development of a Systems Development Methodology for Location-Based Games
Computers in Entertainment, 2018Currently, there is a lack of systems development methodologies (SDMs) suitable for the development of location-based games. This research introduced a newly developed SDM to aid in the development process of location-based games, called the developmental methodology for location-based games (DMLBG).
Jacques Barnard +2 more
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Social Capital Accumulation in Location-Based Mobile Game Playing: A Multiple-Process Approach
Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2017Cecilia Cheng, Leif Sigerson
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