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A component based architecture for distributed, pervasive gaming applications

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Carsten Magerkurth,

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ACE '06: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGCHI international conference on Advances in computer entertainment technology

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1178823.1178842

Published: 14 June 2006 Publication History

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In this paper, we describe a component based architecture for developing distributed, pervasive games that integrate tangible and graphical user interface components. We first discuss some of the interface components we have developed and then present a coordination infrastructure called Pegasus that allows flexibly coupling and reconfiguring components during runtime. On top of Pegasus we have created a language for describing pervasive games called DHG and briefly present a first sample application that is based on the component based architecture and defined with the game description language DHG.

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A component based architecture for distributed, pervasive gaming applications
1. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Multimedia information systems

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ACE '06: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGCHI international conference on Advances in computer entertainment technology

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DOI:10.1145/1178823

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Kirshenbaum NRobertson SMueller FJohnson DSchouten BToups ZWyeth P(2018)PEPA DeckProceedings of the 2018 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts10.1145/3270316.3271521(479-486)Online publication date: 23-Oct-2018
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Soute IVacaretu TWit JMarkopoulos P(2017)Design and Evaluation of RaPIDO, A Platform for Rapid Prototyping of Interactive Outdoor GamesACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/310570424:4(1-30)Online publication date: 23-Aug-2017
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