Designing location-based mobile games with a purpose

Matyas, Sebastian; Matyas, Christian; Schlieder, Christoph; Kiefer, Peter; Mitarai, Hiroko; Kamata, Maiko

doi:10.1145/1501750.1501806

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“…An alternative method to encourage/motivate participation is to Previous attempts at using a mobile game to collect geographical data, such as landmarks, have received limited success (e.g. Matyas et al, 2008). This has been attributed partly to the lack of clarity regarding how the data might be repurposed, but also to difficulty in developing a strong, high-level game concept, which would motivate the collection of good quality landmark data.…”

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“…Matyas et al, 2008). This has been attributed partly to the lack of clarity regarding how the data might be repurposed, but also to difficulty in developing a strong, high-level game concept, which would motivate the collection of good quality landmark data.…”

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“…It has been suggested that candidate landmarks could be extracted from existing datasets, such as points of interest or webbased pictorial databases (Elias, 2003), but this fails to consider issues of relevance to the navigation task and appropriate nomenclature. It is suggested that a more effective approach is to collect such data empirically using mobile crowdsourcing (Matyas et al, 2008, Winter et al, 2011. …”

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Crowdsourcing good landmarks for in-vehicle navigation systems

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Behaviour & Information Technology

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Augmenting navigation systems with landmarks has been posited as a method of improving the effectiveness of the technology and enhancing drivers' engagement with the environment. However, good navigational landmarks are both laborious to collect and difficult to define. This research aimed to devise a game concept, which could be played by passengers in cars, and would collect useful landmark data as a by-product. The paper describes how a virtual graffiti tagging game concept was created and tested during on-road trials with 38 participants. The data collected in the road trials were then validated using a survey, in which 100 respondents assessed the quality of the landmarks collected and their potential for reuse in navigation applications. Players of the game displayed a consensus in choosing where to place their graffiti tags with over 30% of players selecting the same object to tag in 10 of the 12 locations.Furthermore, significant correlation was found between how highly landmarks were rated in the survey and how frequently they were tagged during the game.The research provides evidence that using crowdsourcing games to collect landmarks does not require large numbers of people, or extensive coverage of an area, to produce suitable candidate landmarks for navigation.Keywords: crowdsourcing; graffiti-tagging; games; survey; landmarks; in-vehicle navigation systems Introduction GPS-based in-vehicle navigation systems (IVNS) are popular and widely used in automobiles today, typically existing as factory-fitted units, mobile (nomadic) devices and smartphone applications. Mobile Human Computer Interaction (HCI) research in this area has primarily focused on issues of usability and efficiency, and the effects on navigational effectiveness and driving performance (e.g. Green et al., 1995). Concerns have also been raised regarding the deleterious effects of prolonged use of IVNS, such as geospatial uncertainty and environmental disengagement (Smiley, 2000, Leshed et al., 2008. It has been suggested that utilising landmarks (defined here as, "an object in the landscape, which, by its conspicuousness, serves as a guide in the direction of one's course" (OED, 2015)) to act as navigational cues within IVNS, may ameliorate these problems in addition to enhancing the usability and efficiency of the device (May et al., 2004). Indeed, augmenting IVNS with landmarks is likely to improve navigation and driving performance, increase driver confidence, improve engagement with the environment, promote enhanced spatial learning and reduce reliance on the system (Oliver and Burnett, 2008). Furthermore, the use of landmarks during the routine provision of directions is also consistent with basic human wayfinding strategies (Burnett et al., 2001). There are, however, significant obstacles associated with utilising landmarks as navigational cues within IVNS, notably identifying the most appropriate landmark to use at navigational decision points, and the laborious nature of collecting, describing and maintaining a database of thes...

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“…Others have demonstrated how VGI has been shown to be more appropriate, because of their currency, than sources like ORNL during disasters [51]. Matyas et al point out that data, like OSM, collected through VGI methodologies are often done so in a game-like atmosphere because the users contribute when and how they like with little or no oversight and as a result does not promote the idea of self-editing [52]. In contrast, OSMCP addressed the issue noted above by including editors from both student volunteers and USGS in a hybrid environment [53] and provided the volunteer contributors and editors with guidelines regarding the appropriate representative location for each feature.…”

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Assessing Completeness and Spatial Error of Features in Volunteered Geographic Information

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Mullen

Agouris

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IJGI

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Abstract:The assessment of the quality and accuracy of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) contributions, and by extension the ultimate utility of VGI data has fostered much debate within the geographic community. The limited research to date has been focused on VGI data of linear features and has shown that the error in the data is heterogeneously distributed. Some have argued that data produced by numerous contributors will produce a more accurate product than an individual and some research on crowd-sourced initiatives has shown that to be true, although research on VGI is more infrequent. This paper proposes a method for quantifying the completeness and accuracy of a select subset of infrastructure-associated point datasets of volunteered geographic data within a major metropolitan area using a national geospatial dataset as the reference benchmark with two datasets from volunteers used as test datasets. The results of this study illustrate the benefits of including quality control in the collection process for volunteered data.

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“…From the literature (Matyas et al, 2009, andBell et al, 2006) we know that if players fall behind on a leader board too much they become uninterested in a game very fast. Kokochi tries to solve this problem with how the emotion pattern is generated by the game.…”

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Game-Based Trust

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Kato

Shime

et al. 2012

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Trust stands at the beginning of every meaningful interaction between members of any kind of community -be it in the real world or in a virtual one. But how could an application look like that helps to create or even foster the interpersonal trust of its users? We developed a game -Kokochiwith the goal to positively affect the interpersonal trust level of its players. We evaluated Kokochi in two case studies and compared the results with a control group that didn´t play the game. We could show that playing the game -featuring three unique game elements to enhance trust: disclosure of personal information (emotional statements), collaborations (face-to-face) and showing goodwill towards other players (virtual hugging) -resulted in an (significant) higher interpersonal trust level of the subjects after the game than they had before.

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Designing location-based mobile games with a purpose

Cited by 89 publications

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Crowdsourcing good landmarks for in-vehicle navigation systems

Crowdsourcing good landmarks for in-vehicle navigation systems

Assessing Completeness and Spatial Error of Features in Volunteered Geographic Information

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