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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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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.
João Tiago Pinheiro Neto Jacob +1 more
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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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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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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020 Location-based games have become popular in recent years, with Pokémon Go and Ingress being two very prominent examples. Some location-based games, known as Serious Games, go beyond entertainment and serve additional purposes such as data collection.
Rene Westerholt +2 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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Editorial: “Serious location-based games”
Frontiers in Education, 2022 Heinrich Söbke +5 more
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ألعاب الواقع المعزز القائمة على الموقع الجغرافي Location Based Games.... [PDF]
تکنولوجیا التعلیم: سلسلة دراسات و بحوث, 2022 يتناول هذا المقال ألعاب الواقع المعزز القائمة على الموقع الجغرافي من حيث المفهوم، المجالات، الخصائص، الأنماط، التحديات التي تواجه تصميم هذه الألعاب، طرق تحديد موقع اللاعب، المكونات التي يجب مراعاتها عند التصميم.This article deals with augmented reality ...
اميمه عيد جميل +2 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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