Community Generated Location Based Gaming

Abstract

This paper presents the concept for community driven Location Based Games (LBG) that involve actively exploring and discovering public spaces similar to the characteristics seen in Geocaching. The game demonstrated in this paper attempts to utilise the motivations and overcome the limitations of existing Location Based Games.

Contributors

Mark Lochrie

Kate Lund

Paul Coulton

Conference

Publication date: September 2010

Publication date (Print): September 2010

Pages: 474-478

Affiliations

Infolab21, Lancaster University

Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2010.59

Copyright statement: © Mark Lochrie et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of HCI 2010, University of Abertay, Dundee, UK

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Conference name: Proceedings of HCI 2010

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 24

Conference location: University of Abertay, Dundee, UK

Conference date: 6 - 10 September 2010

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Human Computer Interaction

Product

Product Information: 1477-9358BCS Learning & Development

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Categories

Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing