Where on-line meets on-the-streets: early experiences with location-base games
Speaker: Professor Steve Benford, The Mixed Reality Laboratory, The University of Nottingham
When: 2003-08-12 13:00:00
Venue: 78-420
Host: Storm Griffin
Abstract:Location-based games are a new form of entertainment played out on
the city streets. Players equipped with handheld or wearable
interfaces move through the city. Sensors capture information about
their current context, including their location, and this is used to
deliver a gaming experience that changes according to where they
are, what they are doing and potentially how they are feeling. In
collaborative games this information is also transmitted to other
players who may also be on the streets or on-line. The net result is
a gaming experience that is interwoven with the player's everyday
experience of the city. This seminar will discuss the lessons
learned from publicly staging two location-based games - Can You See
me Now? and Uncle Roy All Around You - focusing on strategies for
dealing with uncertainties arising from the use of GPS and wireless
networking and drawing out implications for both game and software
design.
Biography:Steve Benford is Professor of Collaborative Computing at the
University of Nottingham (www.mrl.nott.ac.uk) and a founder of the
Mixed reality Laboratory (www.equator.ac.uk) . He is also a
principal investigator on the UK's Equator project, a six-year,
eight-partner initiative that is investigating the interweaving of
physical and digital interaction for everyday life. Recent papers
can be found in the ACM CHI, Multimedia, VRST, CSCW and SIGGRAPH
conferences and also in ACM Transactions on CHI and Communications
of the ACM.
Type: ITEE Seminar
Contact:Storm Griffin, seminar host (storm@itee.uq.edu.au)
or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator)
(guido@itee.uq.edu.au)