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International Conference on Entertainment and Media in the Ubiquitous Era, 2022 Location-based games (LBGs) are based on digital representations of our surroundings and the spaces we inhabit. These digital twins of the real world, real world metaverses, are subsequently augmented by imaginary game content.
Manuel F. Baer +3 more
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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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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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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.
Perez-Colado, Victor M. +4 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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Learning with Location-Based Gaming
, 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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The Pandemic as a Catalyst for Reimagining the Foundations of Location-Based Games
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2021 Mainstream location-based games (LBGs) highlight three foundations-exercise, exploration, and social interaction-which were hugely disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Arpita Bhattacharya +6 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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Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2021 Popular location-based games (LBGs) such as Pok´emon GO have been downloaded hundreds of millions of times and have been shown to have a positive impact on mild exercise and social well-being of their players.
Samuli Laato +3 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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