Enabling emergent behaviour in location based games

Proceedings of the 14th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Envisioning Future Media Environments, MindTrek 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 78-85

  Lund, Kate ^a   Lochrie, Mark ^a   Coulton, Paul ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emergent behaviour; Geocaching; Location based games; Mobile; User generated content

Indexed keywords

EMERGENT BEHAVIOURS; GEOCACHING; LOCATION BASED GAMES; MOBILE; USER GENERATED CONTENT;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 79952319562     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1930488.1930505     Document Type: Conference Paper

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