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Editorial: “Serious location-based games”
Frontiers in Education, 2022 COPYRIGHT © 2022 Söbke, Baalsrud Hauge, Pechenkina, Gagnon and Ninaus. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).
Heinrich Söbke +5 more
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The mobility laws of location-based games [PDF]
EPJ Data Science, 2021 Mobility 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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Serious Games in Cultural Heritage: A Review of Practices and Considerations in the Design of Location-Based Games [PDF]
Education Sciences, 2022 The overwhelming growth and popularity of mobile devices and games have motivated initiatives to explore mobile and augmented reality to bring the physical and virtual together.
Boaventura DaCosta, Carolyn Kinsell
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Empowering Games. Meaning Making by Designing and Playing Location Based Mobile Games [PDF]
Interaction Design and Architecture(s), 2016 The article analyses and discusses the use of Location Based Mobile Games to raise awareness on sensitive issues connected to illness and disability. We report on a study grounded on higher education didactic experiences.
Ilaria Mariani, Davide Spallazzo
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Location-based Games as Exergames - From Pokémon To The Wizarding World
International Journal of Serious Games, 2020 Exergames, i.e. games which aim to increase player’s physical activity, are a prominent sub-category of serious games (SGs). Recently, location-based games (LBGs) similar to Pokémon GO have gained the attention of exergame designers as they have been ...
Samuli Laato +4 more
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On Metrics for Location-Aware Games [PDF]
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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The Art of Tacit Learning in Serious Location-Based Games
Frontiers in Education, 2021 Over the past two decades, location-based games have moved from media art fringes to the mass cultural mainstream. Through their locative affordances, these game types enable practices of wayfaring and placemaking, with the capacity to deliver powerful ...
Jacob Sheahan +2 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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Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2020 In early 2020, as a countermeasure to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments issued limitations on the movements of their citizens, cancelling social events and advising people to stay home.
Samuli Laato +2 more
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Cartographic Vandalism in the Era of Location-Based Games—The Case of OpenStreetMap and Pokémon GO
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020 User-generated map data is increasingly used by the technology industry for background mapping, navigation and beyond. An example is the integration of OpenStreetMap (OSM) data in widely-used smartphone and web applications, such as Pokémon GO (PGO),
Levente Juhász +3 more
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