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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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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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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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Gamified Mobile Collaborative Location-Based Language Learning
Frontiers 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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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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Using Interviews to Evaluate Location-Based Games: Lessons and Challenges
Journal 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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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.
Víctor Manuel Pérez-Colado +4 more
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Frontiers 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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Learning analytics for location-based serious games [PDF]
2018 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.
Victor M. Perez-Colado +4 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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