The map as playground: Location based games as cartographical practices

Proceedings of DiGRA 2011 Conference: Think Design Play

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Lammes, Sybille ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Casual play; Location based games; Maps as games; Navigational interfaces

Indexed keywords

CASUAL PLAY; LOCAL INFORMATION; LOCATION BASED; LOCATION BASED GAMES; MOBILE GAMES; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES; SOCIAL SPACES;

NAVIGATION;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 84873359012     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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