Freegaming: Mobile, Collaborative, Adaptive and Augmented Exergaming

Görgü, Levent; Campbell, Abraham G.; McCusker, Kealan; Dragone, Mauro; O’Grady, Michael J.; O’Connor, Noel E.; O’Hare, Gregory M. P.

doi:10.1155/2012/549173

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“…Furthermore, the game mechanics in these two games are different. Another example, Freegaming (Görgü et al, 2010), is an outdoor exergaming concept that promotes play within mobile contexts and social environments. In this research, the authors proposed the Freegaming system architecture to support location-based exergames.…”

Section: Exergames and Armentioning

confidence: 99%

Designing Mobile Augmented Reality Exergames

Laine

Suk

2016

Games and Culture

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Exergames aim to make exercise more enjoyable, especially for children and young adults who are accustomed to digital technologies. Calory Battle augmented reality (AR) is a mobile exergame that utilizes context awareness and AR to enable interaction with virtual content. Designing mobile exergames and AR interaction has received little scholarly attention. This article has several contributions to the design discussion: (1) implementation of a mobile AR exergame, (2) discourse on the game design process, (3) evaluation with 29 South Korean elementary school children and university students who suggested a good reception of the game and generated ideas for improvements of usability and AR interaction, (4) analysis of the game with respect to established game motivators and the Immersion, Scientificalness, Competitiveness, Adaptability, and Learning (ISCAL) exergame design model, (5) design principles and lessons learned, and (6) discussion of the flow experience in exergames. These results can be used by designers to create motivating and interactive mobile AR games.

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Section: Exergames and Armentioning

confidence: 99%

Designing Mobile Augmented Reality Exergames

Laine

Suk

2016

Games and Culture

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“…In [2], the authors propose a mobile agent-based framework to enhance the performance of network games where agents are used to achieve adaptive game execution and delivery from an architectural point of view, instead of being used to model in-game elements as we do. In the context of pervasive gaming, in [7] they use mobile agents to develop their games, but they do not exploit the capabilities of mobile agents as we propose (e.g., 1 ship, 1 mobile agent).…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mobile Agents for Mobile Games

Mena

Bobed

2015

Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Mobile Gaming

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Mobile agents have been with us for a quite long time, showing their usefulness when it comes to developing distributed information systems. In particular, their dynamism, mobility, and adaptivity have been shown to be especially wellsuited to deal with different problems that arise in mobile computing scenarios: the need for efficient access to heterogeneous and distributed data sources, dynamic load balancing, robustness in unstable connections and communication failures, etc. Indeed, developing mobile games using mobile agents technology would benefit from these characteristics in terms of infrastructures and on-demand deployment, but this is not the only benefit they could obtain from it.In this paper, we advocate using the paradigm of software mobile agents to enhance mobile games design. By exploiting their mobility, context adaptivity, autonomy, and, last but not least, their intuitive design paradigm, game developers are provided with an alternative approach to design games that otherwise might be impossible to implement in an efficient manner. We illustrate this potential using a sample mobile game.

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“…Games can foster play and participation in playful cities, support citizen communication, social inclusion and coordination, and develop capital in social relationships [1,9,10,17]. Mobile outdoor games in particular promote significant social interaction via physical activity, engagement, face-to-face interaction, mobility, health benefits, and extra motivation and enjoyment [3,4,11,22]. In urban environments games can bring people with different social, cultural and emotional backgrounds [18] and behaviours [6] together.…”

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Fostering Social Interaction in Playful Cities

Fonseca

Lukosch

Brazier

2019

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

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This paper describes different types of activities/challenges designed for social interaction, while discussing the performance of such challenges using the mobile digital game "Secrets of the South" (http://secretsofthesouth.tbm. tudelft.nl/, Secrets of the South). The game was played as part of a scientific meeting, with participants from 25 to 62 years of age and a varying degree of cultural differences. The presentation and discussion of the results of the gameplay provide insights on the appropriateness of the different challenges for social interaction in a playful city. Directions for future work for such challenge designs are presented.

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Freegaming: Mobile, Collaborative, Adaptive and Augmented Exergaming

Cited by 10 publications

References 27 publications

Designing Mobile Augmented Reality Exergames

Designing Mobile Augmented Reality Exergames

Mobile Agents for Mobile Games

Fostering Social Interaction in Playful Cities

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