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Requirements for Location-Based Games for Social Interaction

open access: yesIEEE 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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Location-Based Games and the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis of Responses from Game Developers and Players

open access: yesMultimodal 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
doaj   +1 more source

Interactive Urban Play to Encourage Active Mobility: Usability Study of a Web-Based Augmented Reality Application

open access: yesFrontiers in Computer Science, 2021
Owing to increasing cases of sedentary lifestyles and their negative impact on health, practical solutions are needed to address the physical and mental wellbeing of citizens and to enhance their standard of living.
Michael Oduor, Timo Perälä
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of opposition quality and match location on the positional demands of the 4-2-3-1 formation in elite soccer

open access: yesJournal of Exercise Science & Fitness, 2020
Background/Objective: The present study examined the influence of match location, quality of opposition team, and playing position on physical performance indicators of the 4-2-3-1 formation.
Giorgos Paraskevas   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Call of duty:Modern warfare (series) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (MW) and its sequels Modern Warfare 2 (MW2) and Modern Warfare 3 (MW3) are FPS video games primarily developed by California-based developer Infinity Ward and published by Activision.
Donald, Iain
core   +2 more sources

Board Game Prototyping to Co-Design a Better Location-Based Digital Game [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2017
conference ...
Jones, Catherine Emma   +3 more
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Issues in the Development of Location-Based Games

open access: yesInternational 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
doaj   +1 more source

Cartographic Vandalism in the Era of Location-Based Games—The Case of OpenStreetMap and Pokémon GO

open access: yesISPRS 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
doaj   +1 more source

"Get off my lawn!": Starting to understand territoriality in location based mobile games [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
With the increasing popularity of mobile video games, game designers and developers are starting to integrate geolocation information into such games.
Chamberlain, Alan   +5 more
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Promoting Navigation Health Literacy at the Intersection of Schools and Communities. Development of the Game-Based Intervention Nebolus

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2021
Emerging empirical evidence indicates a limited health literacy for a substantial proportion of children and adolescents. Although it is generally agreed upon promoting health literacy as early as possible in the lifespan, there is a lack of ...
Kevin Dadaczynski   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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