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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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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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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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Editorial: “Serious location-based games”
Frontiers in Education, 2022 Heinrich Söbke +5 more
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Journal of Play in Adulthood, 2022 This article argues for the position that libraries should develop, host, and encourage the community-creation of location-based games. While Pokémon Go has demonstrated that there is a sizable population ready to go outside to play, it also has left the
Mita Williams
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Literature Review of Location-Based Mobile Games in Education: Challenges, Impacts and Opportunities
Informatics, 2021 With the universal use of mobile computing devices, there has been a notable increase in the number of mobile applications developed for educational purposes.
Fernando Reinaldo Ribeiro +3 more
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Location-based Mobile Games for a house museum.
Convergências - Revista de Investigação e Ensino das Artes, 2021 The paper discusses a formal didactic activity in a higher education context, which brought to the design, development, and testing of thirteen Location-Based Mobile Games (LBMGs) for the Bagatti Valsecchi House Museum.
Davide Spallazzo, Ilaria Mariani
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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.
Perez-Colado, Victor Manuel +4 more
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International Journal of Serious Games, 2020 Editorial of the International Journal of Serious Games, Vol.
Alessandro De Gloria
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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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