Developing multiplayer pervasive games and networked interactive installations using ad hoc mobile sensor nets

Akribopoulos, Orestis; Logaras, Marios; Vasilakis, Nikos; Kokkinos, Panagiotis; Mylonas, Georgios; Chatzigiannakis, Ioannis; Spirakis, Paul G.

doi:10.1145/1690388.1690418

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“…This capability has prompted new mobile applications that leverage occasional encounters of users in various social contexts, e.g., for mobile social networking [22,13,9], content sharing [15,12], mobile ad-hoc gaming [5,16], and more [19,21,31,24]. Specialized middleware [3, 32,25,18,7] has also been produced to facilitate the development of such applications.…”

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Termite: Emulation Testbed for Encounter Networks

Bruno¹,

Santos²,

Ferreira³

2015

Proceedings of the 12th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services

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Cutting-edge mobile devices like smartphones and tablets are equipped with various infrastructureless wireless interfaces, such as WiFi Direct and Bluetooth. Such technologies allow for novel mobile applications that take advantage of casual encounters between co-located users. However, the need to mimic the behavior of real-world encounter networks makes testing and debugging of such applications hard tasks.We present Termite, an emulation testbed for encounter networks. Our system allows developers to run their applications on a virtual encounter network emulated by software. Developers can model arbitrary encounter networks and specify user interactions on the emulated virtual devices. To facilitate testing and debugging, developers can place breakpoints, inspect the runtime state of virtual nodes, and run experiments in a stepwise fashion. Termite defines its own Petri Net variant to model the dynamically changing topology and synthesize user interactions with virtual devices. The system is designed to efficiently multiplex an underlying emulation hosting infrastructure across multiple developers, and to support heterogeneous mobile platforms. Our current system implementation supports virtual Android devices communicating over WiFi Direct networks and runs on top of a local cloud infrastructure. We evaluated our system using emulator network traces, and found that Termite is expressive and performs well.

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Termite: Emulation Testbed for Encounter Networks

Bruno¹,

Santos²,

Ferreira³

2015

Proceedings of the 12th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services

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“…To develop a large and diverse set of social exergames, software development support is needed for game construction, sensor interaction, data collection, and assessment. General-purpose game engines support graphics and rendering, animation, physics, and artificial intelligence, but more specialized software infrastructure is needed to support development of pervasive games that integrate networked sensors [9,1]. Mobile social exergames must adapt to player gestures and changing physical locations, as well as the availability of players joining and leaving the network.…”

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GameChanger

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Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering

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While the health benefits of exercise are wide-ranging and wellknown, the population of the United States is suffering from a lack of physical activity. We believe that combining elements of social interaction with exercise in video games will lead to increased and sustained engagement in physical activity. In this paper, we present an initial design of GameChanger, a middleware to support the development of a new generation of social exergames that interweave physical activity as a core game mechanic with social elements such as competition and collaboration. The GameChanger middleware provides programming abstractions that are specific to social exergame mechanics, elevating their description so that even non-expert programmers can create interesting social exergames that utilize mobile phones and sensing technology to integrate physical activity into gameplay. In addition, the middleware provides constructs for performing continuous assessment of physical activity during gameplay; these constructs can be used to provide feedback to the gameplayer or to collect datasets for evaluation by health researchers. As such, the GameChanger middleware can also serve as a platform to support scientific experimentation and exploration to determine which combinations of social and physical elements have the greatest impact on physical activity.

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“…Some other examples of geolocated games that use the technological advances provided by pervasive computing are, CATS (Magerkurth, 2004), Team Exploration (Gentes, 2010), FinN (Akribopoulos, 2009), Why Is Everyone Inside Me?! (Sanneblad, 2004), Geolympus (Arango-L opez, 2021), LAGARTO (Maia, 2017), SPLASH (Razikin, 2011) and SoundPark (Pellerin, 2009).…”

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Building a pervasive social gaming experience using SocialPG

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Pervasive computing has become a key element to build applications that use fun as a motivating component because it allows exploring new interaction schemes by making the concept of space and time ambiguous and confusing. The present research describes a pervasive social gaming experience, using as a reference SocialPG, which is a model that describes social expansion as a strategy to improve gaming experiences supported by pervasive computing. In this article a description of the model is offered, software architecture is proposed to support it and a case study related to the process of error resolution and detection of improvement opportunities in software products is developed, finally, a general idea about the final software product that will support the game experience is offered together with an evaluation performed by a set of users, where some important findings are highlighted, such as the importance of the missions as a unit of cooperative work and the spectator's participation.

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Developing multiplayer pervasive games and networked interactive installations using ad hoc mobile sensor nets

Cited by 17 publications

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Termite: Emulation Testbed for Encounter Networks

Termite: Emulation Testbed for Encounter Networks

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