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Designing Serious Mobile Location-Based Games
2019The technical requirements of mobile location-based games have been met sufficiently well to make location-based mobile games an everyday object. Games like Ingress or Pokemon GO have experienced a huge popularity. Hence, the question arises how the obvious attraction of these games can be used to achieve goals other than entertainment, such as ...
Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge +3 more
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QuizHuntAR: A location-based Augmented Reality game for education
2021 International Conference on Graphics and Interaction (ICGI), 2021Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology whose interest and number of applications has grown constantly in several areas, having great popularity in entertainment, whose advantages benefit areas such as education, namely in the gamification component. Although several attempts have been made in applying Game-based Learning (GBL) in the classroom context ...
Santos, José Eduardo da Silva +1 more
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Location-Based Games in Informatics Education
2013In the digital era, pupils in primary and secondary schools tend to be familiar with smartphones, PDAs, tablets, GPS navigators etc. Since mobile devices provide new opportunities for teaching and learning, it is necessary to look for an effective way of using them in the curriculum.
Gabriela Lovászová, Viera Palmárová
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Location, location, location [location-based games]
IEEE Spectrum, 2006This paper discusses the latest development in the gaming industry, called mobile gaming. One of the first so-called location-based games is called Raygun, from the Washington-based game developer, GloVentures LLC. Raygun is played with a mobile device such as a cellphone or a PDA, and uses GPS technology to transform the real world into a virtual ...
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GeoGuild: Location-Based Framework for Mobile Games
2013 International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, 2013Smartphones' performance is in sustained growth, and their geolocation capabilities bring opportunities for developers to explore new aspects of social gaming. We propose a multiplatform framework that can give a social side to a wide range of mobile games.
Georgia Ionescu +2 more
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Applying and Facilitating Serious Location-Based Games
2020The popularity of location-based games continues unabated and is benefiting from the increasing use of mobile end devices and advantageous general conditions, such as the Internet of Things and the Smart City paradigm. This enormous potential of engagement should also be tapped for serious location-based games, i.e.
Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge +3 more
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Fitness adventure – location based fitness game
2007We realized the combination of exercising and mobile gaming by developing a location based fitness game for series 60 mobile phones. The game utilizes a Bluetooth GPS receiver. This paper illustrates the concept of the Fitness Adventure prototype and presents the main motives for design.
Leikas Jaana +4 more
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Modelling and transposition of location-based games
Entertainment Computing, 2019Abstract Design and development of Location-Based Games (LBG) are not trivial tasks due to their pervasive nature, multidisciplinary requirements, and global deployment issues. This paper presents a model-based approach to describe and generate LBGs. Our approach separates location data, game mechanics, and media content from the game implementation.
Cristiane Ferreira +4 more
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Seamful Design for Location-Based Mobile Games
2005Seamful design is a new approach to reveal and exploit inevitable technical limitations in Ubiquitous Computing technology rather than hiding them. In this paper we want to introduce its general ideas and apply them to the design of location-aware games for mobile phones.
Gregor Broll, Steve Benford
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Enabling emergent behaviour in location based games
Proceedings of the 14th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Envisioning Future Media Environments, 2010In general location based games have failed to achieve wide scale adoption and the only location based service that can truly claim such adoption is Geocaching. Arguably this is due to fact that the majority of these games draw their inspiration from video games rather than the way users engage with public spaces such as in Geocaching.
Lund, Kate, Lochrie, Mark, Coulton, Paul
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