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Designing location based learning experiences for people with intellectual disabilities and additional sensory impairments [PDF]

, 2010
The research reported here is part of a larger project which seeks to combine serious games (or games based learning) with location based services to help people with intellectual disability and additional sensory impairments to develop work based skills.
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Design Framework for Social Interaction with Location-based Games

International Journal of Serious Games, 2022
Location-based games invite players to have new forms of meaningful social interactions with others and provide opportunities for players to engage with their own neighbourhood’s public space.
Xavier Fonseca, Stephan Lukosch, Frances Brazier   +2 more
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PacMap: Transferring PacMan to the Physical Realm

, 2015
This paper discusses the implementation of the pervasive game PacMap. Openness and portability have been the main design objectives for PacMap. We elaborate on programming techniques which may be applicable to a broad range of location-based games that ...
Chatzidimitris, Thomas, Gavalas, Damianos, Kasapakis, Vlasios   +2 more
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Location-Based Games For Learning

, 2018
Research argues that digital educational games have the potential to make learning more interesting and more effective. However, creating engaging game-based learning experiences remains challenging. To address this challenge, the authors present the game authoring pipeline of the Beaconing Platform that enables the construction of location-based ...
Stanescu, Ioana A., Ancuța Florentina Gheorgh, Ștefan, Antoniu, Arnab, Sylvester, Loizou, Michael, Morini, Luca, Hauge, Jannicke Baalsrud   +6 more
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Towards Location-based Augmented Reality games

Procedia Computer Science, 2012
AbstractLocation-based games have become more popular thanks to the growth of mobile device's technology. This paper presents a framework for the development of location-based augmented reality games and wARms, an augmented-reality location- based mobile game prototype based on said framework that uses the player's real position and orientation in ...
Jacob, João, da Silva, Hugo, Coelho, António, Rodrigues, Rui   +3 more
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Design of a Mobile Augmented Reality Platform with Game-Based Learning Purposes

Information, 2020
Augmented reality (AR) is an emergent technology that overlays virtual objects into the real environment. Lately, AR is gaining prominence in education because of its increasing affordability through computers or mobile technologies.
Maria Cristina Costa, António Manso, João Patrício   +2 more
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Location-based Games as Exergames - From Pokémon To The Wizarding World

International Journal of Serious Games, 2020
Exergames, i.e. games which aim to increase player’s physical activity, are a prominent sub-category of serious games (SGs). Recently, location-based games (LBGs) similar to Pokémon GO have gained the attention of exergame designers as they have been ...
Samuli Laato, Sonja Hyrynsalmi, Sampsa Rauti, A.K.M. Najmul Islam, Teemu H. Laine   +4 more
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Technical cheating prevention in location-based games

International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies '21, 2021
Online multiplayer game developers have plenty of motivation to prevent technical cheating in their games. In the case of location-based games (LBGs), in addition to the usual anti-cheat measures, developers need to be able to verify players’ location sensor data.
Smed Jouni, Koivunen Lauri, Rauti Sampsa, Laato Samuli   +3 more
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Location-Based digital game

, 2010
Tese de mestrado integrado. Engenharia Informática e Computação. Faculdade de Engenharia.
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A Game of Pawns [PDF]

Logical Methods in Computer Science
We introduce and study pawn games, a class of two-player zero-sum turn-based graph games. A turn-based graph game proceeds by placing a token on an initial vertex, and whoever controls the vertex on which the token is located, chooses its next location ...
Guy Avni, Pranav Ghorpade, Shibashis Guha   +2 more
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