Smart Mobility, the Role of Mobile Games

Pajarito, Diego; Gould, Michael

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-70111-0_5

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“…Researchers are exploring future trends in urban cycling such as potential users of electric bikes in Norway (Fyhri, Heinen, Fearnley, & Sundfør, 2017), perceived comfort and satisfaction with cycling infrastructure in the United Kingdom (Calvey et al, 2015), or integrated transmedia to attract, engage and guide new cyclists with music (Albrecht, Väänänen, & Lokki, 2016). Additionally, researchers are beginning to evaluate the role of serious games in urban cycling promotion, and so publications in that area, while still scarce, are emerging (Pajarito & Gould, 2017).…”

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“…Only three apps (Bike Citizens, "Map my Ride" and Biko) target urban cyclists or people using bicycles as a mode of transportation. These applications mainly use competition strategies (i.e., they entice the user to outdo against other riders or achieve self-defined goals) to motivate and engage users by rewarding the highest performance (Pajarito & Gould, 2017) (e.g., offering badges for recording more than 10 km per day or after getting the cycling speed record). On the other hand, collaboration, where users aim to achieve a common goal or benefit for a group, may be an interesting alternative to motivate and engage users (McNutt, 2014).…”

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Collaboration or competition: The impact of incentive types on urban cycling

Grajales

Degbelo

Gould

2019

International Journal of Sustainable Transportation

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Bicycling is an important mode of transport for cities and many cities are interested in promoting its uptake by a larger portion of the population. Several cycling mobile applications primarily rely on competition as a motivation strategy for urban cyclists. Yet, collaboration may be equally useful to motivate and engage cyclists. The present research reports on an experiment comparing the impact of collaboration-based and competition-based rewards on users' enjoyment, satisfaction, engagement with, and intention to cycle. It involved a total of 57 participants in three European cities: Münster (Germany), Castelló (Spain), and Valletta (Malta). Our results show participants from the study reporting higher enjoyment and engagement with cycling in the collaboration condition. However, we did not find a significant impact on the participants' worldview when it comes to the intentions to start or increase cycling behaviour. The results support the use of collaboration-based rewards in the design of gamebased applications to promote urban cycling.

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Section: Mobile Geospatial Technologies For Urban Cyclingmentioning

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Collaboration or competition: The impact of incentive types on urban cycling

Grajales

Degbelo

Gould

2019

International Journal of Sustainable Transportation

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“…Consequently, Pajarito's (ESR07) research topic considers the struggle between advocacy groups lobbying for increasing the use of bicycles and, on the other hand, citizens who do not easily change their transport routines and behaviour to fully embrace cycling. There is a clear need to leverage persuasive technologies, such as gamification, for encouraging the use of bicycles for commuting (Pajarito & Gould, 2017 particularly focused on the geographies of empathy as a means of how the relationship with other humans and non-humans can be traced in varied manners (Portela & Granell-Canut, 2016). Both representational models (e.g.…”

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Geo-C: Enabling Open Cities and the Open City Toolkit

Granell

Bhattacharya

Casteleyn

et al. 2018

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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ABSTRACT:The GEO-C doctoral programme, entitled "Geoinformatics: Enabling Open Cities", is funded by the EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (International Training Networks (ITN), European Joint Doctorates) until December 2018, and is managed by three European universities in Germany, Portugal and Spain. 15 doctoral grantholders (Early Stage Researchers) were selected to work on specific three-year projects, all contributing to improving the notion of open cities, and specifically to an Open City Toolkit of methodologies, code, and best practice examples. Contributions include volunteered geographic information (VGI), public information displays, mobility apps to encourage green living, providing open data to immigrant populations, reducing the second-order digital divide, sensing of quality of life, proximity based privacy protection, and spatio-temporal online social media analysis. All doctoral students conducted long-term visits and were embedded in city governments and businesses, to gain experience from multiple perspectives in addition to the researcher and users' perspective. The projects are situated within three areas: transparency, participation, and collaboration. They took mostly a bottom-up (citizen-centric) approach to (smart) open cities, rather than relying on large IT companies to create smart open cities in a top-down manner. This paper discusses the various contributions to enabling open cities, explains in some detail the Open City Toolkit, and its possible uses and impact on stakeholders. A follow-up doctoral program has been solicited and, if successful, will continue this line of research and will strengthen aspects of privacy, data provenance, and trust, in an effort to improve relations between data (e.g. news) publishers and consumers.

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“…There are very few published studies dealing with the use of mobile applications for promotion of urban cycling [16]. However, there has been work on more general applications of gamification and lately geo-games as effective tools for encouraging behavioural change and promote physical activity [17][18][19][20].…”

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“…Our research used measures for walking and cycling. Walking speed "ranged from 4.58 Km/h (127.2 cm/s) for women in their seventies to 5.26 Km/h (146.2 cm/s) for men in their forties" [14], and cycling speed ranges between 12 and 20 km/hour [15] due to the different conditions faced in urban environments.There are very few published studies dealing with the use of mobile applications for promotion of urban cycling [16]. However, there has been work on more general applications of gamification and lately geo-games as effective tools for encouraging behavioural change and promote physical activity [17][18][19][20].…”

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Mapping Frictions Preventing from Bicycle Commuting

Pajarito¹,

Gould²

2018

Preprint

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Urban cycling is a sustainable transport mode that cities currently try to expand. However, cities still do not take advantage of geospatial technologies to understand cycling mobility based on the behavioural patterns and difficulties faced by cyclists. This study analyses a geospatial dataset crowdsourced by urban cyclists using an experimental geo-game. About 20 participants per city recorded bicycle trips during one week and, by aggregating them, we found not only the cyclists’ preferred streets but also the frictions faced during cycling. We successfully identified 284 places potentially having frictions: 71 in Münster, Germany; 70 in Castelló, Spain; and 143 in Valletta, Malta. At such places, Participants not only recorded bicycle trips but also segments at lower speeds indicating a deviation from an ideal cycling scenario. We described the potential frictions preventing from bicycle commuting based on the distance to bicycle paths, surrounding infrastructure, and location in the urban area.

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Smart Mobility, the Role of Mobile Games

Cited by 6 publications

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Collaboration or competition: The impact of incentive types on urban cycling

Collaboration or competition: The impact of incentive types on urban cycling

Geo-C: Enabling Open Cities and the Open City Toolkit

Mapping Frictions Preventing from Bicycle Commuting

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