Professor Tanda: greener gaming & pervasive play Export

@inproceedings{16016, abstract = {This study examines the development of a mobile phone-based pervasive game that related its user's environmental footprint. It discusses the design challenges, development and evaluation of the prototype game in order to identify the key strategies and mechanisms that relate to the production of pervasive systems for mass participation. Designing the user experience for such systems is particularly difficult, as the game had to educate and entertain without patronizing or preaching to the user. A prototype system was developed and trialed in order to identify and understand how users related to the experience and how the game may be further developed. We found that character-led tailored physical activities were generally found to be the most enjoyable, while players wanted more interaction with each other and more score-based content. Creating interdependent question sets and orchestrating the game arduous process. In the future a fully automated system will be key to its use.}, author = {Chamberlain, Alan and Benford, Steve and Greenhalgh, Chris and Hampshire, Alastair and Tandavanitj, Nick and Adams, Matt and Oldroyd, Amanda and Sutton, Jon}, citeulike-article-id = {3300487}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1389908.1389942}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1389908.1389942&coll=Portal&dl=ACM&CFID=1208704&CFTOKEN=28794655}, doi = {10.1145/1389908.1389942}, isbn = {978-1-60558-308-2}, journal = {Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Designing for User eXperiences}, keywords = {computing, context-aware, devices, games, handheld, interaction, mobile, persuasive, ubiquitous}, number = {Chicago, Illinois}, pages = {1--16}, posted-at = {2008-09-20 21:54:17}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Professor Tanda: greener gaming \& pervasive play}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1389908.1389942}, year = {2007} }

TY - CONF ID - 16016 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3300487 N2 - This study examines the development of a mobile phone-based pervasive game that related its user's environmental footprint. It discusses the design challenges, development and evaluation of the prototype game in order to identify the key strategies and mechanisms that relate to the production of pervasive systems for mass participation. Designing the user experience for such systems is particularly difficult, as the game had to educate and entertain without patronizing or preaching to the user. A prototype system was developed and trialed in order to identify and understand how users related to the experience and how the game may be further developed. We found that character-led tailored physical activities were generally found to be the most enjoyable, while players wanted more interaction with each other and more score-based content. Creating interdependent question sets and orchestrating the game arduous process. In the future a fully automated system will be key to its use. IS - Chicago, Illinois JF - Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Designing for User eXperiences SN - 978-1-60558-308-2 EP - 16 TI - Professor Tanda: greener gaming \& pervasive play PB - ACM SP - 1 KW - computing KW - context-aware KW - devices KW - games KW - handheld KW - interaction KW - mobile KW - persuasive KW - ubiquitous AU - Chamberlain, Alan AU - Benford, Steve AU - Greenhalgh, Chris AU - Hampshire, Alastair AU - Tandavanitj, Nick AU - Adams, Matt AU - Oldroyd, Amanda AU - Sutton, Jon PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1389908.1389942 ER -