Theoretical and methodological implications of designing and implementing multiuser location-based games

Diamantaki, Katerina; Rizopoulos, Charalampos; Charitos, Dimitris; Tsianos, Nikos; Gazi, Angeliki

doi:10.1007/s00779-010-0304-x

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“…Some techniques mentioned were: inductive thematic analysis, coding with ad hoc scheme, and affinity diagram. Two papers (Linehan et al, 2013;Diamantaki et al, 2011) stood out for providing more details on the qualitative analysis procedures of the data obtained in interviews.…”

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Using Interviews to Evaluate Location-Based Games: Lessons and Challenges

Carneiro

Darin

Pinheiro

et al. 2021

JIS

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Games User Research (GUR) is an interdisciplinary field of study that aims to measure, analyze, and understand the interaction and experience of players with digital games. Joining efforts to the advances in GUR, this work focuses on the evaluation of player interaction with Location-Based Games (LBGs), seeking to understand which aspects of this interaction can be explored through interviews and how researchers and practitioners have been using this method. We analyzed 23 studies that applied interviews to this end and conducted an expert opinion survey with the authors of these studies. As a result, we presented lessons and research challenges for the use of interviews in this type of evaluation, in hopes to encourage the conscious and systematic application of this method, in addition to guiding practitioners and researchers, especially beginners.

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“…LBGs under evaluation in the analyzed papersLankes and Stiglbauer (2016) LOCUNET gameDiamantaki et al (2011) Can You See Me Now?Benford et al (2006) ObscuraQuek and See (2015) Cutting Corners Sandham et al (2011) Parallel Kingdom Verdejo et al (2010) Destination Baillie et al…”

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Using Interviews to Evaluate Location-Based Games: Lessons and Challenges

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Darin

Pinheiro

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“…[25] presents a qualitative study to discuss the impact of awareness tools in Quake (a FPS Video Game), while [26] shows that the users play better when they use awareness tools. Other related works are [27] which presents an analysis for improving communication tools through the use of user and group information, [28] which presents a method to design games that support collaborative learning, and [29] which presents a study aimed to analyze collaborative activities performed by students and teachers in a game-based learning environment. So, it is desirable to propose mechanisms to change the behavior of the game depending on the current social context.…”

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A Context-Aware Architecture for Improving Collaboration of Users in Groupware Systems

Montané-Jiménez¹,

Benítez–Guerrero²,

Mezura-Godoy³

2013

Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing

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A Context-Aware Groupware System (CAGS) enables the members of a team to communicate, cooperate and coordinate their activities to achieve a common goal, by providing them tools that are aware of their current execution context and adapt accordingly. CAGS can be found in several domains such as entertainment, particularly Collaborative First-Person-Shooter (FPS) video games. In CAGS, the means of collaboration traditionally provided to users (e.g. text and audio messaging) are not necessarily adequate: for instance, in a FPS, messages can distract the gamer due to the speed of the game. This paper reports a study that, for Collaborative FPS, identifies advantages/disadvantages of current means of collaboration and social behaviors that arise when players interact face-to-face or remotely. Based on this study, a context-aware conceptual model and architecture is proposed for CAGS aimed to improve user collaboration.

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“…They treated the discovery of finds as a "treasure hunting" game. Diamantaki et al [7] report that games can often emerge naturally, and it may be that the lower popularity of Romans was that they did not fit well with the users' objectives, as Romans could not be "collected" and added to a list in the same way as the finds. Participants with Virtual Excavator would explore independently, but join up for a few seconds to compare their finds, similar to the way in which two travellers on a road would pass the time of day when they met: The short sporadic nature of collaboration was common throughout all interactions with Virtual Excavator.…”

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confidence: 99%

Shaking the dead

McGookin

Vazquez-Alvarez

Brewster

et al. 2012

Proceedings of the 7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Making Sense Through Design

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We consider how visits to un-stewarded historical and archaeological sites -those that are unstaffed and have few visible archaeological remains -can be augmented with multimodal interaction to create more engaging experiences. We developed and evaluated a mobile application that allowed multimodal exploration of a rural Roman fort. Sixteen primary school children used the application to explore the fort. Issues, including the influence of visual remains, were identified and compared with findings from a second study with eight users at a separate site. From these, we determined key design implications around the importance of physical space, group work and interaction with the auditory data.

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Theoretical and methodological implications of designing and implementing multiuser location-based games

Cited by 14 publications

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Using Interviews to Evaluate Location-Based Games: Lessons and Challenges

Using Interviews to Evaluate Location-Based Games: Lessons and Challenges

A Context-Aware Architecture for Improving Collaboration of Users in Groupware Systems

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