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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The use of ambient audio to increase safety and immersion in location-based games

KURCZAK, JOHN JASON 01 February 2012 (has links)
The purpose of this thesis is to propose an alternative type of interface for mobile software being used while walking or running. Our work addresses the problem of visual user interfaces for mobile software be- ing potentially unsafe for pedestrians, and not being very immersive when used for location-based games. In addition, location-based games and applications can be dif- ficult to develop when directly interfacing with the sensors used to track the user’s location. These problems need to be addressed because portable computing devices are be- coming a popular tool for navigation, playing games, and accessing the internet while walking. This poses a safety problem for mobile users, who may be paying too much attention to their device to notice and react to hazards in their environment. The difficulty of developing location-based games and other location-aware applications may significantly hinder the prevalence of applications that explore new interaction techniques for ubiquitous computing. We created the TREC toolkit to address the issues with tracking sensors while developing location-based games and applications. We have developed functional location-based applications with TREC to demonstrate the amount of work that can be saved by using this toolkit.In order to have a safer and more immersive alternative to visual interfaces, we have developed ambient audio interfaces for use with mobile applications. Ambient audio uses continuous streams of sound over headphones to present information to mobile users without distracting them from walking safely. In order to test the effectiveness of ambient audio, we ran a study to compare ambient audio with handheld visual interfaces in a location-based game. We compared players’ ability to safely navigate the environment, their sense of immersion in the game, and their performance at the in-game tasks. We found that ambient audio was able to significantly increase players’ safety and sense of immersion compared to a visual interface, while players performed signifi- cantly better at the game tasks when using the visual interface. This makes ambient audio a legitimate alternative to visual interfaces for mobile users when safety and immersion are a priority. / Thesis (Master, Computing) -- Queen's University, 2012-01-31 23:35:28.946
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Megalith Grave Escape : Using escape room game mechanics for cultural heritage sites

Vaske, Kristofer January 2019 (has links)
This report documents the development of a concept and prototype for a mobile application with the purpose of making the megalith graves surrounding the town of Falköping more engaging and interactive for visitors. Because of the limitations of working with heritage sites that cannot be altered to support a gaming experience, the usage of escape room game mechanics is explored. Because escape room games depend on the user's observation and exploration of their environment, they serve as a usable inspiration for applications with the purpose of making visitors experience a location in a similar way. The prototype developed for the project contains puzzles designed for four different megalith grave sites which were then tested with groups of children and parents playing together.
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Design and development of a mobile editor for location-based games

Lopez-Romero Guijarro, Rodrigo 09 October 2014 (has links)
In the present project I propose to describe the design, development and implementation of mobile application TaggingCreaditor. TaggingCreaditor, as its name suggests, is a tool that allows the creation and edition of content for collaborative location-based mobile games, i.e., for the called 'Tagging games', whose physical elements are identified with tags such as a QR code or RFID code tags. The application has been developed for both desktop computers and mobile devices. In this paper the editor for the mobile devices will be presented. Mobile technologies play an increasingly important role in our lives, so that it is reasonable that new ideas come up to take advantage of this technology. An interesting example is the collaborative location-based mobile games that have the great advantage that they can be used for both entertainment and learning. Examples of collaborative location-based games are MuseumScrabble or CityScrabble, of which a study will be carried out prior to the design of the content editor. The problem is that there are plenty of locations where you can play many of the existing location-based games, but we do not have a generic tool that facilitates the creation of content. This is what comes to solving TaggingCreaditor: creating content for these games so that any developer can operate his game at any location in the world. Even, a school teacher could use this tool to create content for their students in a museum to which they will visit. Therefore, this application could be considered as a useful supporting utility for collaborative location-based mobile games such as MuseumScrabble or CityScrabble mentioned before. Among the highlights and strengths of the application, we find that it is a generic and collaboration tool. First, the application is designed with the idea that it can be used by a large number of mobile location-based games, so it is a generic tool. And, secondly, the content editor has the advantage of being collaborative, allowing multiple users to create content for their own games in parallel in the same database. I would like to finish remarking the utility that a generic editor may have for the location-based games, allowing to create content of any subject for whatever the game is and in any place of the world. I also would like to highlight that the editor can be improved in a lot of different ways, for instance, an interesting improvement could be the multi-user support so that each user can create their own games without using the same database that other users. / Η παρούσα εργασία περιγράφει το σχεδιασμό, την ανάπτυξη και την υλοποίηση της εφαρμογής ΤaggingCreaditor για κινητές συσκευές. To TaggingCreaditor όπως αποκαλύπτει και το όνομα του είναι ένα εργαλείο για την παραγωγή και επεξεργασία περιεχομένου για συνεργατικά χωρο-ευαίσθητα παιχνίδια με κινητές συσκευές, όπως για παράδειγμα τα “Tagging games” όπου τα φυσικά αντικείμενα αναγνωρίζονται μέσω της σάρωσης QR ή RFID ετικετών. Η εφαρμογή αναπτύχθηκε για χρήση σε σταθερό υπολογιστή αλλά και σε κινητές συσκευές. Σε αυτή τη διπλωματική εργασία θα παρουσιαστεί η εφαρμογή που αφορά στην παραγωγή και επεξεργασία περιεχομένου για κινητές συσκευές. Οι κινητές τεχνολογίες διαδραματίζουν όλο ένα και σημαντικότερο ρόλο στη ζωή μας, με αποτέλεσμα πολλές νέες ιδέες να προκύπτουν λαμβάνοντας υπόψην τα πλεονεκτήματα αυτών των τεχνολογιών. Ενδιαφέρον είναι το παράδειγμα των συνεργατικών χωρο-ευαίσθητων παιχνιδιών τα οποία μπορούν να χρησιμοποιηθούν παράλληλα για ψυχαγωγία και μάθηση. Τέτοια παραδείγματα αποτελούν τα παιχνίδια MuseumScrable και CityScrable, στα οποία έχει γίνει εκτενής μελέτη πριν το σχεδιασμό του TaggingCreaditor. Τα υπάρχοντα χωρο-ευαίσθητα παιχνίδια μπορούν να παιχτούν σε πολλούς χώρους ωστόσο δεν υπάρχει ένα εργαλείο γενικής εφαρμογής το οποίο να διευκολύνει στην δημιουργία περιεχομένου για τα παιχνίδια αυτά. Αυτό το κενό έρχεται καλύψει η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία με το σχεδιασμό και την ανάπτυξη του εργαλείου TaggingCreaditor. To εργαλείο αυτό αναπτύχθηκε για την παραγωγή και επεξεργασία περιεχομένου για χωρο-ευαίσθητα παιχνίδια έτσι ώστε κάθε σχεδιαστής παιχνιδιού να μπορεί να σχεδιάσει παιχνίδια για να παιχτούν σε οποιαδήποτε περιοχή του κόσμου. Για παράδειγμα, ένας δάσκαλος θα μπορούσε να σχεδιάσει ένα παιχνίδι και να παράξει περιεχόμενο για αυτό ώστε να παιχτεί από τους μαθητές του κατά την διάρκεια μιας επικείμενης επίσκεψης σε ένα μουσείο. Επιπρόσθετα, αυτό το εργαλείο θα μπορούσε να αποτελεί υποστηρικτική λειτουργία για τα υπάρχοντα συνεργατικά χωρο-ευαίσθητα παιχνίδια όπως τα MuseumScrable και CityScrable. Ανάμεσα στα κυριότερα σημεία και δυνατότητες αυτής της εφαρμογής, είναι το γεγονός ότι το TaggingCreaditor είναι ένα συνεργατικό και γενικής εφαρμογής εργαλείο. Κατά πρώτον, ο σχεδιασμός έγινε έτσι ώστε πολλοί χρήστες να μπορούν συνεργατικά και παράλληλα να παράγουν και να επεξεργάζονται το περιεχόμενο των παιχνιδιών τους, χρησιμοποιώντας μια κοινή βάση δεδομένων. Κατά δεύτερον, η εφαρμογή αυτή σχεδιάστηκε με το σκεπτικό πως θα μπορεί να χρησιμοποιηθεί για την παραγωγή και επεξεργασία του περιεχομένου ενός μεγάλου αριθμού χωροευαίσθητων παιχνιδιών, κάτι που κάνει το συγκεκριμένο εργαλείο να είναι εργαλείο γενικής εφαρμογής. Θα ήθελα να κλείσω τονίζοντας την χρησιμότητα που μπορεί να έχει ένα τέτοιο εργαλείο γενικής εφαρμογής για τα χωρο-ευαίσθητα παιχνίδια, επιτρέποντας την δημιουργία και επεξεργασία περιεχομένου γύρω από οποιαδήποτε θεματική ενότητα, για οποιοδήποτε παιχνίδι και σε οποιαδήποτε περιοχή του κόσμου αυτό παίζεται. Θα ήθελα επίσης να τονίσω πως το συγκεκριμένο εργαλείο μπορεί να βελτιωθεί με πολλούς διαφορετικούς τρόπους όπως για παράδειγμα να μπορεί να υποστηρίζει πολλούς χρήστες οι οποίοι όμως δεν θα χρησιμοποιούν κοινή βάση δεδομένων για την παραγωγή και επεξεργασία του περιεχομένου των παιχνιδιών τους.
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Design and development of an editor for location-based games

Ortega-Arranz, Alejandro 09 October 2014 (has links)
Nowadays, mobile games and applications have turned around in essential elements in the current society. But, at the same time that world does not stop (society, tendencies, ... it changes daily), mobile games and applications should update and modify their contents. Thus, content providers play an important role and turn around important. The Human Computer Interaction (HCI) group from University of Patras, have developed some mobile games with a playful and educative scope, and also its content editors. But, could be possible stopping developing one editor for each game and make one in common? even could we extend it to other games not developed by the HCI group? This will be our purpose during this document. Trying to create a content editor despite the fact of the differences of the games, logic, user interface and other many aspects which differ them. Therefore, the content provider should be able to create, edit or update the information or content without changing the performance of the games. For carrying this out, first of all we should analyze which things the games have in common and then, to get an abstraction. This abstraction should work for all the games although they have incompatible properties among them. Then, for this kind of properties, we should add somehow a visibility parameter. By this way, that properties will be invisible for games which do not use them. Hence, this common content editor should be able to add, modify and delete objects of the games which have been developed and can be played everywhere in the whole world. / Η παρούσα εργασία περιγράφει το σχεδιασμό, την ανάπτυξη και την υλοποίηση της εφαρμογής ΤaggingCreaditor για χρήση σε σταθερό υπολογιστή. To TaggingCreaditor όπως αποκαλύπτει και το όνομα του είναι ένα εργαλείο για την παραγωγή και επεξεργασία περιεχομένου για συνεργατικά χωρο-ευαίσθητα παιχνίδια με κινητές συσκευές, όπως για παράδειγμα τα “Tagging games” όπου τα φυσικά αντικείμενα αναγνωρίζονται μέσω της σάρωσης QR ή RFID ετικετών. Η εφαρμογή αναπτύχθηκε για χρήση σε σταθερό υπολογιστή αλλά και σε κινητές συσκευές. Σε αυτή τη διπλωματική εργασία θα παρουσιαστεί η εφαρμογή που αφορά στην παραγωγή και επεξεργασία περιεχομένου για χρήση σε σταθερό υπολογιστή. Ενδιαφέρον είναι το παράδειγμα των συνεργατικών χωρο-ευαίσθητων παιχνιδιών τα οποία μπορούν να χρησιμοποιηθούν παράλληλα για ψυχαγωγία και μάθηση. Τέτοια παραδείγματα αποτελούν τα παιχνίδια MuseumScrable και CityScrable, στα οποία έχει γίνει εκτενής μελέτη πριν το σχεδιασμό του TaggingCreaditor. Τα υπάρχοντα χωρο-ευαίσθητα παιχνίδια μπορούν να παιχτούν σε πολλούς χώρους ωστόσο δεν υπάρχει ένα εργαλείο γενικής εφαρμογής το οποίο να διευκολύνει στην δημιουργία περιεχομένου για τα παιχνίδια αυτά. Αυτό το κενό έρχεται καλύψει η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία με το σχεδιασμό και την ανάπτυξη του εργαλείου TaggingCreaditor. To εργαλείο αυτό αναπτύχθηκε για την παραγωγή και επεξεργασία περιεχομένου για χωρο-ευαίσθητα παιχνίδια έτσι ώστε κάθε σχεδιαστής παιχνιδιού να μπορεί να σχεδιάσει παιχνίδια για να παιχτούν σε οποιαδήποτε περιοχή του κόσμου. Για παράδειγμα, ένας δάσκαλος θα μπορούσε να σχεδιάσει ένα παιχνίδι και να παράξει περιεχόμενο για αυτό ώστε να παιχτεί από τους μαθητές του κατά την διάρκεια μιας επικείμενης επίσκεψης σε ένα μουσείο. Επιπρόσθετα, αυτό το εργαλείο θα μπορούσε να αποτελεί υποστηρικτική λειτουργία για τα υπάρχοντα συνεργατικά χωρο-ευαίσθητα παιχνίδια όπως τα MuseumScrable και CityScrable. Ανάμεσα στα κυριότερα σημεία και δυνατότητες αυτής της εφαρμογής, είναι το γεγονός ότι το TaggingCreaditor είναι ένα συνεργατικό και γενικής εφαρμογής εργαλείο. Κατά πρώτον, ο σχεδιασμός έγινε έτσι ώστε πολλοί χρήστες να μπορούν συνεργατικά και παράλληλα να παράγουν και να επεξεργάζονται το περιεχόμενο των παιχνιδιών τους, χρησιμοποιώντας μια κοινή βάση δεδομένων. Κατά δεύτερον, η εφαρμογή αυτή σχεδιάστηκε με το σκεπτικό πως θα μπορεί να χρησιμοποιηθεί για την παραγωγή και επεξεργασία του περιεχομένου ενός μεγάλου αριθμού χωρο-ευαίσθητων παιχνιδιών, κάτι που κάνει το συγκεκριμένο εργαλείο να είναι εργαλείο γενικής εφαρμογής. Θα ήθελα να κλείσω τονίζοντας την χρησιμότητα που μπορεί να έχει ένα τέτοιο εργαλείο γενικής εφαρμογής για τα χωρο-ευαίσθητα παιχνίδια, επιτρέποντας την δημιουργία και επεξεργασία περιεχομένου γύρω από οποιαδήποτε θεματική ενότητα, για οποιοδήποτε παιχνίδι και σε οποιαδήποτε περιοχή του κόσμου αυτό παίζεται. Θα ήθελα επίσης να τονίσω πως το συγκεκριμένο εργαλείο μπορεί να βελτιωθεί με πολλούς διαφορετικούς τρόπους όπως για παράδειγμα να μπορεί να υποστηρίζει πολλούς χρήστες οι οποίοι όμως δεν θα χρησιμοποιούν κοινή βάση δεδομένων για την παραγωγή και επεξεργασία του περιεχομένου των παιχνιδιών τους.
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Uma ferramenta de autoria para o desenvolvimento de jogos móveis baseados em localização com realidade aumentada / An authoring tool for location-based mobile games with augmented reality features

Nolêto, Carleandro de Oliveira January 2015 (has links)
NOLÊTO, Carleandro de Oliveira. Uma ferramenta de autoria para o desenvolvimento de jogos móveis baseados em localização com realidade aumentada. 2015. 114 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em ciência da computação)- Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza-CE, 2015. / Submitted by Elineudson Ribeiro (elineudsonr@gmail.com) on 2016-07-12T19:17:21Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_dis_conoleto.pdf: 20398755 bytes, checksum: 8d852ec08a3b16e5ddd6271407f0c027 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Rocilda Sales (rocilda@ufc.br) on 2016-07-25T11:29:03Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_dis_conoleto.pdf: 20398755 bytes, checksum: 8d852ec08a3b16e5ddd6271407f0c027 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-25T11:29:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_dis_conoleto.pdf: 20398755 bytes, checksum: 8d852ec08a3b16e5ddd6271407f0c027 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Location-based mobile games are a special type of game where location technologies are employed to track players and to alter the rules of the games. Such games are a subclass of pervasive games whose playability advances according to the location of players. This work proposes an authoring tool to develop location-based mobile games enhances with augmented reality features. This tool was conceived from research studies on authoring tools and pervasive games. By analysing the related works, we have compiled the most common features of location-based mobile games and the main aspects presented in authoring tools for developing these games. Moreover, we have used focus groups to both enhance the creation of new scenarios for location-based mobile games and improve the usage of augmented reality in such games. Ultimately, we have compiled a set of requirements to design a software architecture for the development of an authoring tool. The designed architecture is composed of a server to manage running games, a web based system for developing these games, and a mobile application in which the games are executed. The main goal of this work is to provide a software solution that allows non-programmers to design, build and execute location-based mobile games. To assess the proposed work, we have designed and implemented a game called "Battle for Fortaleza" using the authoring tool. Besides, we have conducted interviews with users to validate the utility and the easiness of the tool to develop location-based mobile games. / Jogos móveis baseados em localização são aqueles que fazem uso de tecnologias de localização e que agregam a posição de seus jogadores nas regras do jogo. Estes jogos são uma subclasse de jogos pervasivos em que a jogabilidade progride de acordo com a localização do jogador. Neste trabalho é proposta uma ferramenta de autoria para a criação de jogos móveis baseados em localização, acrescidos com recursos de realidade aumentada. A concepção desta ferramenta foi feita com base em uma revisão da literatura sobre ferramentas de autoria e jogos pervasivos. A partir de trabalhos relacionados, buscou-se recolher as características comuns de jogos móveis baseados em localização e características de ferramentas de autoria para estes jogos. Além disso, utilizou-se grupos focais para refinar os novos cenários para jogos móveis baseados em localização, em particular a respeito de como a realidade aumentada pode ser utilizada nestes jogos. Com o estudo de ambos, na revisão da literatura e nos grupos focais foi produzido um conjunto de requisitos para projetar uma arquitetura de software para o desenvolvimento de uma ferramenta de criação. Esta arquitetura é composta de um servidor para gerenciar os jogos em execução, uma aplicação baseada na web que permite a autoria dos jogos e um aplicativo para dispositivos móveis onde são executados os jogos desenvolvidos. Nosso principal objetivo é fornecer uma solução de software para permitir que usuários não-programadores possam projetar, construir e executar jogos móveis baseados em localização. A fim de avaliar a nossa ferramenta, foi projetado e implementado um jogo chamado “Batalha por Fortaleza”, em que as funcionalidades da ferramentas são demonstradas. Além disso, buscou-se validar, com usuários, se a ferramenta proposta consegue auxiliar na criação de jogos de maneira fácil e intuitiva.
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Searching for milk hares : Evaluating a web-based tool for location-based storytelling within cultural heritage

Dristig, Niclas January 2020 (has links)
This report details an attempt to create an interactive Location-based storytelling-experience for mobile devices using QR-codes, and an investigation into the feasibility of such an approach. The underlying purpose of the study is to explore web-based methods of developing interactive Location-based story-telling experiences as a cost-efficient alternative to mobile app-development. A secondary goal of the study was to inform the development of a future Location-based game within a public cultural heritage project directed at children.
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An authoring tool for location-based mobile games with augmented reality features / Uma ferramenta de autoria para o desenvolvimento de jogos mÃveis baseados em localizaÃÃo com realidade aumentada

Carleandro de Oliveira NolÃto 06 November 2015 (has links)
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e TecnolÃgico / Location-based mobile games are a special type of game where location technologies are employed to track players and to alter the rules of the games. Such games are a subclass of pervasive games whose playability advances according to the location of players. This work proposes an authoring tool to develop location-based mobile games enhances with augmented reality features. This tool was conceived from research studies on authoring tools and pervasive games. By analysing the related works, we have compiled the most common features of location-based mobile games and the main aspects presented in authoring tools for developing these games. Moreover, we have used focus groups to both enhance the creation of new scenarios for location-based mobile games and improve the usage of augmented reality in such games. Ultimately, we have compiled a set of requirements to design a software architecture for the development of an authoring tool. The designed architecture is composed of a server to manage running games, a web based system for developing these games, and a mobile application in which the games are executed. The main goal of this work is to provide a software solution that allows non-programmers to design, build and execute location-based mobile games. To assess the proposed work, we have designed and implemented a game called "Battle for Fortaleza" using the authoring tool. Besides, we have conducted interviews with users to validate the utility and the easiness of the tool to develop location-based mobile games. / Jogos mÃveis baseados em localizaÃÃo sÃo aqueles que fazem uso de tecnologias de localizaÃÃo e que agregam a posiÃÃo de seus jogadores nas regras do jogo. Estes jogos sÃo uma subclasse de jogos pervasivos em que a jogabilidade progride de acordo com a localizaÃÃo do jogador. Neste trabalho à proposta uma ferramenta de autoria para a criaÃÃo de jogos mÃveis baseados em localizaÃÃo, acrescidos com recursos de realidade aumentada. A concepÃÃo desta ferramenta foi feita com base em uma revisÃo da literatura sobre ferramentas de autoria e jogos pervasivos. A partir de trabalhos relacionados, buscou-se recolher as caracterÃsticas comuns de jogos mÃveis baseados em localizaÃÃo e caracterÃsticas de ferramentas de autoria para estes jogos. AlÃm disso, utilizou-se grupos focais para refinar os novos cenÃrios para jogos mÃveis baseados em localizaÃÃo, em particular a respeito de como a realidade aumentada pode ser utilizada nestes jogos. Com o estudo de ambos, na revisÃo da literatura e nos grupos focais foi produzido um conjunto de requisitos para projetar uma arquitetura de software para o desenvolvimento de uma ferramenta de criaÃÃo. Esta arquitetura à composta de um servidor para gerenciar os jogos em execuÃÃo, uma aplicaÃÃo baseada na web que permite a autoria dos jogos e um aplicativo para dispositivos mÃveis onde sÃo executados os jogos desenvolvidos. Nosso principal objetivo à fornecer uma soluÃÃo de software para permitir que usuÃrios nÃo-programadores possam projetar, construir e executar jogos mÃveis baseados em localizaÃÃo. A fim de avaliar a nossa ferramenta, foi projetado e implementado um jogo chamado âBatalha por Fortalezaâ, em que as funcionalidades da ferramentas sÃo demonstradas. AlÃm disso, buscou-se validar, com usuÃrios, se a ferramenta proposta consegue auxiliar na criaÃÃo de jogos de maneira fÃcil e intuitiva.
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Treasure the Moment : Communication as a Scaffold for Mobile Learning Activities

Israel, Rotem January 2016 (has links)
Communication is a fundamental social component of human life and constitutes an indispensable factor in the learning process as it allows the transfer of information between people. Communication supports the interactions that take place in different learning stages and settings and can encourage involvement and cooperation. The "Treasure-HIT" platform, a dedicated environment for designing pedagogical mobile location-based games, encourages social interaction and collaborative learning. This platform, which is social at its base, has limited communication capabilities. Adding such capabilities can overcome this difficulty by providing a more supportive and interpersonal interaction among the involved stakeholders. This thesis explores the users' communication needs for the preparation and enactment of "Treasure-HIT" activities. A design based research was used to analyze the needs in terms of design and technological specifications and develop and implement communication features. Three such features were developed in the course of this thesis: (1) Activities based map, (2) Social media sharing feature (Facebook tasks) and (3) Image gallery. All of those aimed at supporting communication between learners, instructors and their community, before, during and after the activities. Findings show that the developed capabilities enabled new means of communication and contributed to the user experience and learning process. Users appreciated the functionality and ease of use and positively adopted the new features.
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Σχεδίαση και ανάπτυξη φορητών εφαρμογών παιγνιώδους μάθησης με τεχνολογίες επαυξημένης πραγματικότητας

Χαλκιάς, Αλέξανδρος 16 May 2014 (has links)
Η διπλωματική εργασία αυτή εκπονήθηκε στο Εργαστήριο της Ερευνητικής Ομάδας Αλληλεπίδρασης Ανθρώπου – Υπολογιστή του Τμήματος Ηλεκτρολόγων Μηχανικών και Τεχνολογίας Υπολογιστών υπό την επίβλεψη του καθ. Ν.Αβούρη. Στόχος της εργασίας είναι η σχεδίαση και ανάπτυξη μίας φορητής εφαρμογής – χωροευαίσθητου παιχνιδιού, με τη χρήση τεχνολογιών επαυξημένης πραγματικότητας. Ο χρήστης της εφαρμογής θα μπορεί να περιηγείται στον χώρο που ορίζει το παιχνίδι και να αλληλεπιδρά με πραγματικά αντικείμενα του χώρου αυτού, με σκοπό τη μάθηση και την ψυχαγωγία. Ο χώρος στον οποίο αναφέρεται η διπλωματική εργασία, είναι η πλατεία Γεωργίου Α’ στην Πάτρα. / This thesis was conducted at the Laboratory of Human Interaction Research Group - Computer Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering under the supervision of Prof. N.Avouris . The goal of this project is the design and development of a pervasive, location-based game, using augmented reality technologies . The user can navigate through the gamespace and interact with real-world objects, in order to learn and enjoy . The selected area, to which the thesis refers, is George the 1st Square, in Patras .
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Εργαλεία σχεδίασης χωρο-ευαίσθητων παιχνιδιών για άτυπη μάθηση

Σιντόρης, Χρήστος 17 July 2014 (has links)
Η εργασία αυτή μελετά τη σχεδίαση χώρο-ευαίσθητων φορητών παιχνιδιών για πολλούς παίχτες. Τα παιχνίδια αυτά παίζονται χρησιμοποιώντας συσκευές όπως PDAs και πιο πρόσφατα έξυπνα τηλέφωνα. Οι συσκευές δίνουν τη δυνατότητα στους παίχτες να έχουν πρόσβαση σε ψηφιακή πληροφορία κατά την ώρα του παιχνιδιού. Σημαντική είναι η δυνατότητα η πληροφορία αυτή να έχει σχέση με τη θέση και κατάσταση του παίχτη. Η πλαισιογνωστική αυτή πληροφορία καθώς και η δυνατότητα παιξίματος σε χώρους πολιτισμού και χώρους με μεγάλη πυκνότητα πληροφορίας, δίνουν τη δυνατότητα να χρησιμοποιηθούν τα παιχνίδια αυτά στην άτυπη μάθηση (π.χ. από τάξεις μαθητών που επισκέπτονται μουσεία, αρχαιολογικά πάρκα κλπ.). Ο στόχος της μελέτης αυτής διατυπώθηκε ως «η υποστήριξη της σχεδίασης χώρο-ευαίσθητων φορητών παιχνιδιών σε χώρους άτυπης μάθησης». Ακολουθήσαμε μεθολογία βασισμένη στη σχεδιαστική έρευνα και εξετάσαμε τη διαδικασία σχεδίασης, υλοποίησης και αξιολόγησης τέτοιων παιχνιδιών. Ακολουθήθηκε μεθοδολογική προσέγγιση με τρία στάδια. 1. Αποσαφήνιση της έρευνας: εξετάστηκαν τα χαρακτηριστικά των παιχνιδιών και του περιβάλλοντος διάχυτου υπολογισμού τα οποία έχουν σημασία στην ανάπτυξη χώρο-ευαίσθητων παιχνιδιών. 2. Ανάπτυξη εργαλείων σχεδιαστικής στήριξης: αναπτύχθηκε μια λύση σε ένα σχεδιαστικό πρόβλημα, ένα παιχνίδι μάθησης για ένα μουσείο. Το αποτέλεσμα ήταν το MuseumScrabble, που απευθύνεται σε τάξεις μαθητών. Στη συνέχεια μελετήθηκαν οι σχεδιαστικές πρακτικές άλλων ομάδων σχεδιαστών. Μελέτη σχεδιαστικών πρακτικών, με τη μέθοδο της εθνογραφικής ανάλυσης περιεχομένου. Αναλύθηκαν έξι δημοσιεύσεις που αφορούσαν τρεις περιπτώσεις σχεδίασης, υλοποίησης και αξιολόγησης τέτοιων παιχνιδιών. Εργαστήρια σχεδίασης, όπου σχεδιάστηκαν και εκτελέστηκαν εργαστήρια με τη συμμετοχή σχεδιαστών με ποικίλο τεχνικό και επιστημονικό υπόβαθρο. Το αποτέλεσμα ήταν τρία εργαλεία σχεδιαστικής στήριξης. Το πλαίσιο σχεδίασης που περιγράφει σε αδρές γραμμές το χώρο σχεδιασμού, οι οδηγίες σχεδίασης και τα πρότυπα σχεδίσης που παρέχουν οδηγίες για τη στήριξη των σχεδιαστών. 3. Αξιολόγηση της σχεδιαστικής στήριξης: Με την εφαρμογή της στην ανάπτυξη ενός νέου παιχνιδιού, του «Αόρατη πόλη: Επαναστάτες εναντίον κατασκόπων», όπου χρησιμοποιήθηκαν τα εργαλεία σχεδιαστικής στήριξης σε κάποιες από τις φάσεις σχεδίασης. Με τη μελέτη των εργαλείων στο πλαίσιο χρήσης τους, όπου ζητήθηκε από σχεδιαστές να χρησιμοποιήσουν τα εργαλεία που αναπτύχθηκαν σε αυτή τη διατριβή για να σχεδιάσουν ένα παιχνίδι. / This dissertation studies the design of location-based multi-player mobile games. These are games which are played using devices such as PDAs or, more recently, smartphones. The devices allow the players to have access to digital information during the game. An important aspect is that this information is related to the location and state of the player. This context-sensitive information as well as the possibility to play at places of cultural importance or other places of high information density offers the opportunity to use this games for informal learning (e.g. by pupils who visit museums, archaeological parks etc.) The aim of this dissertation has been formulated as "to support the design of location-based mobile games in places of informal learning". We followed a methodology based on design research and we examined the processes of designing, implementing and evaluating of these games. The methodological approach that we followed consisted of three stages. 1. Research clarification: the characteristics of location-based mobile games and of pervasive computing environments were examined, which play a significant role in the development of location-based games. 2. Development of design support, which was conducted in three stages. First, a solution for a real-world design problem was developed, a location-based mobile game for pupils who visit a museum. The result was the game MuseumScrabble. Additionally, the design practices of other design teams were studied. Study of design practices, applying an ethnographic content analysis approach. Six publications were analyzed which concerned three cases of designing, implementing and evaluating games of this kind. Design workshops were conducted where the participating designers, of varying and multi-disciplinary background, designed game concepts which were subsequently analyzed to extract game design patterns. The results of these studies were three design support tools. A design framework, which describes the design space, a set of heuristic design guidelines and a number of game design patters which can support the task of designers. 3. Evaluation of the design support tools. By applying the design support in the development of a new game, «Invisible City: Rebels Vs. Spies», where the tools were employed at stages of the design. By studying the tools using a contextual inquiry technique, where it was asked of designers to use the design support tools in order to design a new game.

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