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Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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TY - GEN
T1 - Enabling emergent behaviour in location based games.
AU - Lund, Kate
AU - Lochrie, Mark
AU - Coulton, Paul
PY - 2010/10/6
Y1 - 2010/10/6
N2 - In 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. The game presented in this paper utilises the motivations demonstrated amongst geocachers, such as exploration and discovery, alongside competitive game play in an attempt to enable a longitudinal study of such a gaming community. In this paper we present the design rational and results of initial users beta testing which indicate that user creativity could well be the key to unlocking the potential of location based games.
AB - In 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. The game presented in this paper utilises the motivations demonstrated amongst geocachers, such as exploration and discovery, alongside competitive game play in an attempt to enable a longitudinal study of such a gaming community. In this paper we present the design rational and results of initial users beta testing which indicate that user creativity could well be the key to unlocking the potential of location based games.
KW - Location Based Games
KW - User Generated Content
KW - Emergent Behaviour
KW - Geocaching
KW - Mobile
U2 - 10.1145/1930488.1930505
DO - 10.1145/1930488.1930505
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 978-1-4503-0011-7
SP - 78
EP - 85
BT - MindTrek '10 Proceedings of the 14th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Envisioning Future Media Environments
PB - ACM
CY - New York
T2 - MindTrek 2010
Y2 - 6 October 2010 through 8 October 2010
ER -