The Road Rager: Making use of traffic encounters in a mobile multiplayer game

MUM 2004 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

Volumn 83, Issue , 2004, Pages 33-39

  Brunnberg, Liselott ^a  

^a INTERACTIVE INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Interaction design; Proximity based mobile games; Social interaction; Traffic encounters

Indexed keywords

GAME CONCEPT; INTERACTION DESIGN; MOBILE CONTEXT; MOBILE GAMES; MOBILE GAMING; MULTIPLAYER GAMES; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; TRAFFIC ENCOUNTERS; USER FEEDBACK;

ROADS AND STREETS;

EID: 33745888838     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1052380.1052386     Document Type: Conference Paper

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