Community Generated Location Based Gaming

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.

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Mark Lochrie

Kate Lund

Paul Coulton

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Publication date: September 2010

Publication date (Print): September 2010

Pages: 474-478

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[0001]Infolab21, Lancaster University

Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2010.59

SO-VID: 31cb6152-c672-4db0-8e98-4e2b47190e3a

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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

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1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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Community Generated Location Based Gaming

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