Applying and Facilitating Serious Location-Based Games

Abstract

The 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 locationbased games, i.e. the use of location-based games beyond the purpose of entertainment. The workshop "Applying and Facilitating Serious Location-based Games" aims to contribute to the development of this potential. In the article, the theoretical basis for this workshop is derived and corresponding frameworks are presented.

The Art of Tacit Learning in Serious Location-Based Games

“…Location-based games can be adapted as "serious games"-interactive experiences created for purposes beyond pure entertainment. While Serious Location-based Games (SLGs) (Baalsrud Hauge et al, 2020) have already been developed as learning tools in areas such as digital heritage (Volkmar et al, 2018); environmental engineering (Söbke et al, 2019); interdisciplinary education (Pánek et al, 2017); exercise (Laato et al, 2020); urban policy (Leorke 2019); and the development of contemporary social skills (Fonseca et al, 2020), these experiences tend to rely on didactic learning models.…”