Location-Based Gaming Apps and the Labour of Play

Leorke, Dale

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-0683-9_5

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“…The term locative media was established in the early 2000s associated with the movement of locative art as a descriptor for devices and technologies embedded at or in a particular location (Leorke 2014). Locative media can be described as the convergence of geographic space and data space (Hemment 2006) and be seen as a new field worth exploring, with mobile, networked, location-aware devices helping to create new social interfaces to places, and through artistic interventions transforming the geographical space into a canvas for experimental interactions.…”

Section: Locative Sound Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards an Audio-Locative Mobile Application for Immersive Storytelling

Indans

Hauthal

Burghardt

2019

KN J. Cartogr. Geogr. Inf.

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We live in an age in which digital media is omnipresent and augmented reality is beginning to find its way into our everyday lives, GPS allows us to determine our position with meter precision and the sensor capabilities of smartphones are increasing. All these technologies in combination enable us to explore one of the oldest human art forms in a new way: storytelling. The presented work aims at developing approaches that combine different elements of audio media playback, geolocation and other sensor capabilities of smartphones to allow the creation of immersive geolocated narratives within a mobile application. Thus, the narrative can be precisely adjusted to the specific spatial and temporal context of the user. One of the main goals of such a geolocated narrative would be to influence the cognitive processing of the users. As the visual perception of the location stays the same while using the app, it is only the auditory cognition that causes a subtle enhancement and thus alteration of the reality which could result in a very strong sense of immersion. There are many location-based audio applications on the market. Most of them are intended for tourism in the form of an audio tour guide. Some of those applications have been analyzed before developing our own ideas on how to intertwine sound, space and time into an immersive mobile application for storytelling with semi-linear narrative structures including a map. Possible features could be influenceability of the narrative by, e.g., speed or approach direction of the user, sound movement over time on predetermined routes, etc. The first prototype implemented some audiovisual presentations among others. Keywords Audiovisual cartography • Multimedia cartography • Locative media • Storytelling • Mobile mapping Zusammenfassung Wir leben in einem Zeitalter, in welchem digitale Medien omnipräsent sind und Augmented Reality Einzug ins tägliche Leben erhält, in dem GPS uns befähigt, unsere Position mit Meter-Genauigkeit zu bestimmen und sich das Sensor-Potential von Smartphones erhöht. Das Zusammenspiel all dieser Technologien erlaubt es, eine der ältesten Kunstformen neu zu entdecken: die Erzählkunst. Die vorliegende Arbeit hat zum Ziel, Ansätze zu entwickeln, welche verschiedene Elemente der Audio-Wiedergabe, Geolokalisierung und andere Sensor-Fähigkeiten kombinieren, um immersive, räumlich verortete Narrative für eine mobile Anwendung zu kreieren. Damit können Geschichten präzise an den spezifischen räumlich-zeitlichen Kontext des Nutzers angepasst werden. Die Hauptabsicht einer solchen ortbezogenen Geschichte ist es, die kognitive Wahrnehmung des Nutzers zu beeinflussen. Da während der App-Nutzung die visuelle Wahrnehmung der Umgebung gleich bleibt, ist es nur die auditive Wahrnehmung, welche eine subtile Anreicherung und damit eine Veränderung der Realität bewirkt, was ein starkes immersives Erleben hervorrufen kann. Es sind zahlreiche ortbasierte Audio-Anwendungen auf dem Markt. Bei den meisten handelt es sich um touristische Audio-Führer. Einige dieser Anwen...

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Section: Locative Sound Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards an Audio-Locative Mobile Application for Immersive Storytelling

Indans

Hauthal

Burghardt

2019

KN J. Cartogr. Geogr. Inf.

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“…Ingress is a crucial reference point for Pokémon GO (see Leorke, 2018: 113), as much of the crowdsourced data from the former was imported to Pokémon GO , becoming the apps' basic location-based infrastructure. This makes the development history of Pokémon GO significantly different from previous Pokémon games as the location-based augmentation is part of another development trajectory.…”

Section: From Ingress To Pokémon Gomentioning

confidence: 99%

Haptic ambience: Ambient play, the haptic effect and co-presence inPokémon GO

Apperley

Moore

2018

Convergence

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Haptic media studies emphasize the centrality of touch in the experience of digital media. This article considers how the haptic effect created by relationship between touch, gesture and spatial practice in Pokémon GO cements new possibilities for ambient play and co-presence. The app effectively draws on the genealogies of Nintendo’s handheld Pokémon games, but through the shift to smartphone devices the app creates new forms of ambient play, co-presence and communication that are realized through the publicness of the touch, gesture and comportment which make up the haptic effect of the app. By making the smartphones camera an integral part the game, Pokémon GO suggests the wider relevance of the communicability of feeling and gesture by extending ambient play and co-presence into social media, allowing players to (re)-experience the feeling and touch of Pokémon GO through affective resonance. This suggests that the tactility and touch of the haptic affect are embedded in a matrix of embodied experiences that are revealed through how photography and social media become sites for extending and ambient play.

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“…As location-based games enter the mainstream, increasingly there is a push for them to fi nd a sustainable business model. As geo-location information essentially provides a traceable and archivable record of exactly where someone is, real privacy concerns can emerge, with serious questions about privacy needing clear answers before the role of locative games in an app economy is clear (Leorke 2014).…”

Section: Tama Leaver and Michele Willsonmentioning

confidence: 99%