A case study in pervasive game design

Lankoski, Petri; Heliö, Satu; Nummela, Jani; Lahti, Jussi; Mäyrä, Frans; Ermi, Laura

doi:10.1145/1028014.1028083

Cited by 42 publications

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“…In popular discourse, a virtual world is sometimes used to refer to the concept of an MMORPG, but an MMORPG is shown to be a higher level concept below. Also, in popular discourse, when dealing with “mixed reality,” it is sometimes helpful to regard the system as “a virtual world overlaid on the physical world,” that is, the world of the virtual overlaid on the physical; those components that are virtual, in contrast to physical. And lastly, according to Schroeder “the word ‘virtual’ has come to mean anything online (as in virtual money).” Speaking of a “virtual transfer” could be problematic in the sense of it being simulated by a computer, that is, it did not really happen; ergo, calling it an “electronic transfer” sidesteps the problem.…”

Section: Methodology and Scopementioning

confidence: 99%

Virtual world, defined from a technological perspective and applied to video games, mixed reality, and the Metaverse

Nevelsteen

2017

Computer Animation & Virtual

163

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There is no generally accepted definition for a virtual world, with many complimentary terms and acronyms having emerged implying a virtual world. Advances in networking techniques such as host migration of instances, mobile ad hoc networking, and distributed computing, bring in to question whether architectures can actually support a virtual world. Without a concrete definition, controversy ensues and it is problematic to design an architecture for a virtual world. Several researchers provided a definition but aspects of each definition are still problematic and simply can not be applied to contemporary technologies. The approach of this article is to sample technologies using grounded theory and to obtain a definition for a "virtual world" that is directly applicable to technology. The obtained definition is compared with related work and used to classify advanced technologies such as a pseudo-persistent video game, a MANet, virtual and mixed reality, and the Metaverse. The results of this article include a break down of which properties set apart the various technologies; a definition that is validated by comparing it with other definitions; an ontology showing the relation of the different complimentary terms and acronyms; and the usage of pseudo-persistence to categories those technologies, which only mimic persistence.

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Section: Methodology and Scopementioning

confidence: 99%

Virtual world, defined from a technological perspective and applied to video games, mixed reality, and the Metaverse

Nevelsteen

2017

Computer Animation & Virtual

163

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“…On the other hand, in [14], a video game design was presented. The video game so-called Song of North mixes physical and virtual reality.…”

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Usability perception of different video game devices in elderly users

Palacio

Acosta

Cortez

et al. 2015

Univ Access Inf Soc

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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the usability perception of seniors on video game use with different control devices. Twenty-four seniors participated in the study (12 women, 12 men, 69 years old in average) and eight children (8 years old in average). The setting included the use of two Kinect motion sensors, three computers, three projectors, three video cameras, two audio devices, the Angry Birds and Happy Sky videogames, one Xbox 360 console, a Nintendo Wii device and a Touchscreen configured so that participants could play the games in senior-child pairs. Data were collected according to user friendliness, experience and social interaction. This study suggests that video game control devices for seniors should be adapted to compensate for their function, sensor and cognitive limitations.

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“…• "Affective Gaming": (Brainball [9], AffQuake [7], Relax to Win [19]), • "Augmented Tabletop Games": (STARTS [7], Treasure [14]), • "Location-based Games": (Can You See Me Now [28], Uncle Roy All Around You [23], Human Pacman [25], The Drop [2], Capture the Flag [5], Epidemic Menace [4], SupaFly [3], The Songs of North [29], Insectopia [30], PAC LAN [31]…), • "Augmented Reality Games": (AR² Hockey [7], PingPongPlus [32], AquaGauntlet [7], ARQuake [10], ARTankwar [7], Magic Land [33], Tilt-Pad Pacman [21] and etc), and • Others: like Swordplay [17], NEAT-o-Race [34], Virtual Aquarium [24], Mona Lisa Bookshelf [24], Swordplay [35], Human Trials [36], and Control Freaks [20]. Apart from these kinds of games, we also include several applications which may even hardly be called computer games like Camelot [13] and Ere Be Dragons [11].…”

Section: Game Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

TeMPS: A Conceptual Framework for Pervasive and Social Games

Guo

Trætteberg

Wang

et al. 2010

2010 Third IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning

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Abstract-Pervasive and social game is an emerging game genre which brings more physical movement and social interactions into game. This article proposes the conceptual framework TeMPS that systematically characterize the important aspects of pervasive and social games. Further, around thirty games in different sub-genres are reviewed by analyzing and fitting them into the framework. The framework is helpful for game designers to understand and communicate about such games. Further, it contributes to conceptual modeling of pervasive and social games, and to the construction of a game modeling tool

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A case study in pervasive game design

Cited by 42 publications

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Virtual world, defined from a technological perspective and applied to video games, mixed reality, and the Metaverse

Virtual world, defined from a technological perspective and applied to video games, mixed reality, and the Metaverse

Usability perception of different video game devices in elderly users

TeMPS: A Conceptual Framework for Pervasive and Social Games

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