Bridging the physical and digital in pervasive gaming

Benford, Steve; Magerkurth, Carsten; Ljungstrand, Peter

doi:10.1145/1047671.1047704

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“…This was first discovered by researchers on pervasive gaming: Benford [3,4] raised the problems of uncertainty, spatial configuration, and temporal orchestration of a pervasive game, which are caused by its embedding in space. Walther [42] distinguished tangibility space, information space, and accessibility space, where the first is the space of possible interactions with a physical environment, the second is a digital game representation of the first, and the third interfaces the former two.…”

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“…In Google's successful contemporary LBG Ingress 3 , urban landmarks form "portals" which need to be "hacked" and "linked" to generate "control fields", i.e., spatial triangles under the control of a group of players. However, the choice of landmarks and triangles is arbitrary, and there is no dependency between player actions and geographic places, in particular since actions remain largely virtual 4 .…”

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“…The main advantage of such games is that physical and social experiences are most authentic in a concrete physical or social environment, while the virtual layer of mixed reality adds unprecedented forms of imagination to these environments. In pervasive games, the virtual, social, and physical environments are interconnected based on weaving computing power and sensors into the environmental fabric, and based on the fact that players constantly carry mobile devices [14,4,42]. We regard LBGs as a particular subclass of geogames, i.e., games played in geographic space [35].…”

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(Re-)Localization of Location-Based Games

Scheider

Kiefer

2017

Advances in Geographic Information Science

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While location-based games (LBGs) have been around for some time, only few of them have succeeded in attracting a larger number of players. One reason is the difficulty of suitable embedding of game concepts in an environment. In order to reach players from different places, LBG concepts need to be relocalized in a way which preserves the particular attractiveness of a game. What are criteria for high-quality (re-)localization? While the problem has been recognized in the literature, a systematic derivation of computational criteria is missing. In this chapter, we propose three novel criteria of game localization: playability, breakability, and authenticity. They are based on consistency and similarity measures in a 3-tier model of game localization, understood as a mapping of game actions and narratives into environmental affordances. We illustrate the use of the criteria in terms of a simple conquer game with two different narratives and two different environmental embeddings, as well as with an existing multi-player geogame.

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(Re-)Localization of Location-Based Games

Scheider

Kiefer

2017

Advances in Geographic Information Science

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“…Suspension of disbelief occurs frequently in the play of pervasive or mixed-reality games (Stenros et al, 2009). Mixed-reality games bridge the physical and the digital (Benford et al, 2005). They serve as a vehicle to study distributed interactions across multiple devices and ubiquitous computing environments 'in the wild' (Crabtree et al, 2006).…”

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“…Both DR as well as MRGs routinely bridge the physical and the digital as part of their actors' coordination (Benford et al, 2005). DR for example makes use of the twitterverse to inform real world response (e.g., Sarcevic et al, 2012).…”

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Supporting Team Coordination on the Ground: Requirements from a Mixed Reality Game

Fischer

Jiang

Kerne

et al. 2014

COOP 2014 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, 27-30 May 2014, Nice (France

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Abstract.We generate requirements for time-critical distributed team support relevant for domains such as disaster response. We present the Radiation Response Game to investigate socio-technical issues regarding team coordination. Field responders in this mixed-reality game use smartphones to coordinate, via text messaging, GPS, and maps, with headquarters and each other. We conduct interaction analysis to examine field observations and log data, revealing how teams achieve local and remote coordination and maintain situational awareness. We uncover requirements that highlight the role of local coordination, decision-making resources, geospatial referencing and message handling.

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In‐the‐loop or on‐the‐loop? Interactional arrangements to support team coordination with a planning agent

Fischer

Greenhalgh

Jiang

et al. 2017

Concurrency and Computation

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In this paper, we present the study of interactional arrangements that support the collaboration of headquarters (HQ), field responders, and a computational planning agent in a time-critical task setting created by a mixed-reality game. Interactional arrangements define the extent to which control is distributed between the collaborative parties. We provide 2 field trials, one to study an "on-the-loop" arrangement in which HQ monitors and intervenes in agent instructions to field players on demand and the other, to study a version that places HQ more tightly "in-the-loop." The studies provide an understanding of the sociotechnical collaboration between players and the agent in these interactional arrangements by conducting interaction analysis of video recordings and game log data. The first field trial focuses on the collaboration of field responders with the planning agent. Findings highlight how players negotiate the agent guidance within the social interaction of the collocated teams. The second field trial focuses on the collaboration between the automated planning agent and the HQ. We find that the human coordinator and the agent can successfully work together in most cases, with human coordinators inspecting and "correcting" the agent-proposed plans. Through this field trial-driven development process, we generalise interaction design implications of automated planning agents around the themes of supporting common ground and mixed-initiative planning.

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Bridging the physical and digital in pervasive gaming

Abstract: A new generation of entertainment technology takes computer games to the streets---and ultimately beyond.

Cited by 186 publications

References 7 publications

(Re-)Localization of Location-Based Games

(Re-)Localization of Location-Based Games

Supporting Team Coordination on the Ground: Requirements from a Mixed Reality Game

In‐the‐loop or on‐the‐loop? Interactional arrangements to support team coordination with a planning agent

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