Geographic human-computer interaction

Hecht, Brent; Schöning, Johannes; Haklay, Muki; Capra, Licia; Mashhadi, Afra; Terveen, Loren; Kwan, Mei‐Po

doi:10.1145/2468356.2479637

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“…In this paper, we focus on an important but targeted subset of questions about location-based gaming that are raised by Pokémon GO: those related to Pokémon GO's geography. The geographic HCI ("GeoHCI") [24,25] literature and the location-based gaming literature have both hypothesized that the democratization of a technology like Pokémon GO would have substantial geographic effects, particularly effects related to movement and places [6,11,16,17,54] (two of the "five themes of geography" [70,71]). In this research, we utilized the unprecedented opportunity presented by Pokémon GO to investigate these broad hypotheses.…”

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The Geography of Pokémon GO

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Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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The widespread popularity of Pokémon GO presents the first opportunity to observe the geographic effects of locationbased gaming at scale. This paper reports the results of a mixed methods study of the geography of Pokémon GO that includes a five-country field survey of 375 Pokémon GO players and a large scale geostatistical analysis of game elements. Focusing on the key geographic themes of places and movement, we find that the design of Pokémon GO reinforces existing geographically-linked biases (e.g. the game advantages urban areas and neighborhoods with smaller minority populations), that Pokémon GO may have instigated a relatively rare large-scale shift in global human mobility patterns, and that Pokémon GO has geographicallylinked safety risks, but not those typically emphasized by the media. Our results point to geographic design implications for future systems in this space such as a means through which the geographic biases present in Pokémon GO may be counteracted.

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The Geography of Pokémon GO

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Thebault-Spieker

Lin

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“…Our results suggest that gravity models are also quite useful for understanding processes further afield from transportation and communication. At the very least, this work suggests that researchers who are examining the role of distance in a geographic HCI [25] process should consider utilizing gravity model techniques. The primary challenge of moving beyond simple distance involves operationalizing the mass variables, and our discussion of our implementation of mass can provide a reference point along these lines.…”

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Distance and Attraction

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Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), such as contributions to OpenStreetMap and geotagged Wikipedia articles, is often assumed to be produced locally. However, recent work has found that peer-produced VGI is frequently contributed by non-locals. We evaluate this approach across hundreds of content types from Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, and eBird, and show that these models can describe more than 90% of "VGI flows" for some content types. Our findings advance geographic HCI theory, suggesting some spatial mechanisms underpinning VGI production. We also discuss design implications that can help (a) human and algorithmic consumers of VGI evaluate the perspectives it contains and (b) address geographic coverage variations in these platforms (e.g. via more effective volunteer recruitment strategies).

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“…Dix has a different view regarding map representations as described in his paper Mental geography and Wonky maps In Proc. GeoHCI [11]. Above approaches use an exact representation of the physical space where all locations are reduced to cartesian coordinates.…”

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Spot that Bird: A Location Based Bird Game

Mehta

2018

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In today's age of pervasive computing and social media people make extensive use of technology for communicating, sharing media and learning. Yet while in the outdoors, on a hike or a trail we find ourselves inept of information about the natural world surrounding us. In this paper I present in detail the design and technological considerations required to build a location based mobile application for learning about the avian taxonomy present in the user's surroundings. It is designed to be a game for better engagement and learning. The application makes suggestions for birds likely to be sighted in the vicinity of the user and requires the user to spot those birds and upload a photograph to the system. If spotted correctly the user scores points. I also discuss some design methods and evaluation approaches for the application.

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Geographic human-computer interaction

Cited by 17 publications

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The Geography of Pokémon GO

The Geography of Pokémon GO

Distance and Attraction

Spot that Bird: A Location Based Bird Game

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