Orchestrating a mixed reality game 'on the ground'

Crabtree, Andy; Benford, Steve; Rodden, Tom; Greenhalgh, Chris; Flintham, Martin; Anastasi, Rob; Drozd, Adam; Adams, Matt; Row-Farr, Ju; Tandavanitj, Nick; Steed, Anthony

doi:10.1145/985692.985742

Cited by 86 publications

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“…Unsmooth attention displacement between physical and virtual environments poses a challenge for creating games where both physical and virtual elements are utilized, especially if the window on the world [17] is not truly mobile as are the screens of smart phones and other portable devices. Augmented reality (AR) is one option for blending partial contents from virtual as a direct projection onto physical.…”

Section: A Attention Displacement Between Physical and Virtual Envirmentioning

confidence: 99%

City knights: Spatial realism and memorability of virtual game scenes in pervasive gameplay

Alavesa

Pakanen

Voroshilov

et al. 2017

2017 9th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications (VS-Games)

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Abstract-Realistic 3D city models are gaining popularity and becoming increasingly available. Correspondingly, pervasive games such as Pokemon GO are becoming widely popular. The use of realistic virtual environments in serious applications has been studied from the point of view of spatial memorability, yet the use of realistic virtual environments in the context of pervasive location based games is still unexplored. We assess the impact of spatial realism on the memorability of virtual environments in pervasive gameplay with a pervasive role-playing game City Knights. We conducted a field trial with 13 participants involving virtual environments in three conditions, where the spatial similarity to the access points of the virtual environments varied. Our findings indicate that spatial similarity is one of the qualities affecting the memorability of virtual environments. We suggest that this knowledge can be exploited in designing smoother transitions between virtual and physical environments in pervasive games.

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Section: A Attention Displacement Between Physical and Virtual Envirmentioning

confidence: 99%

City knights: Spatial realism and memorability of virtual game scenes in pervasive gameplay

Alavesa

Pakanen

Voroshilov

et al. 2017

2017 9th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications (VS-Games)

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“…Many research prototypes [4,11,12,24,36,46] as well as some commercial games, like Ingress [28] and Zombies, Run! [47], use the player's location as data input for the game.…”

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“…Prior work in pervasive and urban games has explored elements of collocated interaction such as ''live'' orchestration from a control room through digital communication [12,30], collaboration between people on the ground and online [4], giving and following instructions in teams [37], and successfully merging physical and virtual play [4,11,46]. Can You See Me Now?…”

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confidence: 99%

Expanding social mobile games beyond the device screen

Sra

Schmandt

2015

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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Emerging pervasive games use sensors, graphics and networking technologies to provide immersive game experiences integrated with the real world. Existing pervasive games commonly rely on a device screen for providing game-related information, while overlooking opportunities to include new types of contextual interactions like jumping, a punching gesture, or even voice to be used as game inputs. We present the design of Spellbound, a physical mobile team-based game, to help contribute to our understanding of how we can design pervasive games that aim to nurture a spirit of togetherness. We also briefly touch upon how togetherness and playfulness can transform physical movement into a desirable activity in the user evaluation section. Spellbound is an outdoor pervasive team-based physical game. It takes advantage of the abovementioned opportunities and integrates real-world actions like jumping and spinning with a virtual world. It also replaces touch-based input with voice interaction and provides glanceable and haptic feedback using custom hardware in the true spirit of social play characteristic of traditional children's games. We believe Spellbound is a form of digital outdoor gaming that anchors enjoyment on physical action, social interaction, and tangible feedback. Spellbound was well received in user evaluation playtests which confirmed that the main design objective of enhancing a sense of togetherness was largely met.

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“…DR and MRGs are both highly orchestrated activities. Authoring and orchestration tools 'behind the scenes' of an MRG, as well as player interfaces, provide managers, players and spectators with different temporal and spatial views of the game world in order to support the experience (Crabtree et al, 2004). These settings are surprisingly comparable to the 'control room' of a disaster response operation, in their collections of sophisticated technological arrangements to communicate and coordinate real-time information streams, in order to create a holistic view amidst an immersive setting of interest.…”

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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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Orchestrating a mixed reality game 'on the ground'

Cited by 86 publications

References 6 publications

City knights: Spatial realism and memorability of virtual game scenes in pervasive gameplay

City knights: Spatial realism and memorability of virtual game scenes in pervasive gameplay

Expanding social mobile games beyond the device screen

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

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