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Serious Games in Cultural Heritage: A Review of Practices and Considerations in the Design of Location-Based Games

open access: yesEducation 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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Gamified Mobile Collaborative Location-Based Language Learning

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2021
As design-based research, this study describes the development and analysis of two location-based augmented reality (AR) serious learning games (SLG) for French second language (FL2) learning. Explorez and VdeUVic are collaborative quest-based SLGs.
Bernadette Perry
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Learning analytics for location-based serious games [PDF]

open access: yes2018 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2018
Pervasive gaming has experimented a huge commercial growth with location-based game successes such as Pokémon GO or Ingress. The serious game industry has an opportunity to take advantage of location-based mechanics to better connect games with the real world, creating more authentic immersive learning environments.
Perez-Colado, Victor M.   +4 more
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The Art of Tacit Learning in Serious Location-Based Games

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Using Interviews to Evaluate Location-Based Games: Lessons and Challenges

open access: yesJournal on Interactive Systems, 2021
Games User Research (GUR) is an interdisciplinary field of study that aims to measure, analyze, and understand the interaction and experience of players with digital games.
Nayana Carneiro   +3 more
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Learning with Location-Based Gaming

open access: yes, 2021
Along with popular location-based game Pokemon GO and advancements with mobile technology, location-based gaming has drawn interest in education. Schools may well pose a feasible context for the further mainstream use of location-based games aimed for educational purposes.
Tuomas Harviainen J., Vuorio Jaakko
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Serious Pervasive Games

open access: yesFrontiers in Computer Science, 2020
Serious Pervasive Games extend the magic circle (Huizinga, 1938) to the players' context and surrounding environment. The blend of both physical and fictive game worlds provides a push in player engagement and promotes situated learning approaches. Space
António Coelho   +15 more
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Behavioural Effects of Spatially Structured Scoring Systems in Location-Based Serious Games—A Case Study in the Context of OpenStreetMap

open access: yesISPRS 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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Young Adults’ Perspectives on the Implications of an Augmented Reality Mobile Game for Communities’ Public Health: A Qualitative Study

open access: yesInternational Journal of Public Health, 2023
Objectives: Several physical, psychological, and social health consequences are caused by smartphone users’ addiction to games. A location-based game (LBG), Pokémon GO, recently garnered significant attention from young people. This study aims to explore
Yuk Chiu Yip, Ka Huen Yip, Wai King Tsui
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Delivering real-world ubiquitous location systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Location-enhanced applications are poised to become the first real-world example of ubiquitous computing. In this paper, we emphasize the practical aspects of getting location-enhanced applications deployed on existing devices, such as laptops, tablets ...
Anthony LaMarca   +4 more
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