Designing mobility: Pervasiveness as the enchanting tool of mobility

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Abstract

PLUG - Play Ubiquitous Games -, is a research project that deployed a fully distributed RFID architecture in the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Paris. A pervasive game was designed: "Plug: the Secrets of the Museum" (PSM) where players had to find virtual representations of the Museum artifacts, scatter them around or tidy them in the right spots, or swap them with other players. The analysis of the players' feed back showed that three main features characterize mobility when it is connected to pervasiveness. First, mobility appears as a way to read and collect information. Second, it is a tool to virtually mark the environment and the artifacts. Moving can be akin to "writing" a new scenario. Third, people become part of the network propagating and refreshing information not only on their mobiles but also on the RFID displays.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMobile Computing, Applications, and Services - First International ICST Conference, MobiCASE 2009, Revised Selected Papers
Pages374-382
Number of pages9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2010
Event1st International ICST Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services, MobiCASE 2009, Held in Conjunction with the 1st Workshop on Innovative Mobile User Interactivity, WIMUI - San Diego, CA, United States
Duration: 26 Oct 200929 Oct 2009

Publication series

NameLecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
Volume35 LNICST
ISSN (Print)1867-8211

Conference

Conference1st International ICST Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services, MobiCASE 2009, Held in Conjunction with the 1st Workshop on Innovative Mobile User Interactivity, WIMUI
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Diego, CA
Period26/10/0929/10/09

Keywords

  • Mobile and context-aware games
  • Mobile entertainment
  • Mobile multimedia
  • Novel user experience and interfaces

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