Chase and catch - Simple as that? Old-fashioned fun of traditional playground games revitalized with location-aware mobile phones

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 73-80

  Misund, Gunnar ^a   Holone, Harald ^a   Karlsen, Joakim ^a   Tolsby, Håkon ^a  

^a ØSTFOLD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Norway)

Author keywords

FoxHunt; Fun; GPS; Location based gaming; Mobile; Player awareness; User experience

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL COUNTERPARTS; FIELD STUDIES; GAMING CONCEPTS; GPS LOCATION; LOCATION BASED; LOCATION-AWARE; PHYSICAL EXERCISE; SPECIFIC AREAS; USER EXPERIENCE;

ANIMALS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; TELEPHONE;

TELEPHONE SETS;

EID: 77749298954     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1690388.1690402     Document Type: Conference Paper

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