Conquest - Outdoor Based Games Enhanced with Sensors

This paper presents Conquest, a game platform in the class of trans-reality games in pervasive gaming that combines old classical outdoor games that have been introduced in computer games with the possibilities of today’s technology to enhance outdoor based games. The proposed platform use Near Fiel...

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Published inUbiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. Personalisation and User Adapted Services pp. 68 - 71
Main Authors Åhlén, Mikael, Winbjörk, Martin, Hietala, Simon
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing 2014
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
location-awareness
mobile communication
Near Field Communication
Pervasive games
trans-reality games
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ISBN9783319131016
331913101X
ISSN0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-13102-3_13

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Summary:This paper presents Conquest, a game platform in the class of trans-reality games in pervasive gaming that combines old classical outdoor games that have been introduced in computer games with the possibilities of today’s technology to enhance outdoor based games. The proposed platform use Near Field Communication (NFC), location-awareness with Global Positioning System (GPS) and mobile communication to support three game types that are similar and share a common foundation in the context of sensors and user interaction. Finally, we present a prototype with the usage of the Actor model to efficiently map each physical CPU-powered device to a virtual actor in the back-end.
ISBN:9783319131016
331913101X
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-13102-3_13