Your way your missions: from location-based to route-based pervasive gaming

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of a route-based pervasive game named Your Way Your Missions (YWYM). Since the game obtains the planned routes of players and returns missions in the routes, players can play the game in a casual way, without changing their routes to respond to picked up missions. A self-reporting method is proposed to obtain the planned routes of players, and a corresponding route defining tool is developed upon Google Maps. Two approaches to realize route-based mission adaptation with spatial databases are presented.

REFERENCES

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)
          Subjects: Theory and methods

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors

Keywords:
games, location, pervasive computing, route