Konstantinos Papangelis
Conquering the city: understanding perceptions of mobility and human territoriality in location-based mobile games
Papangelis, Konstantinos; Metzger, Melvin; Sheng, Yiyeng; Liang, Hai-Ning; Chamberlain, Alan; Cao, Ting
Authors
Melvin Metzger
Yiyeng Sheng
Hai-Ning Liang
ALAN CHAMBERLAIN alan.chamberlain@nottingham.ac.uk
Principal Research Fellow
Ting Cao
Abstract
With the increasing popularity of mobile video games, game designers and developers are starting to integrate geolocation into video games. Popular location-based games such as Ingress or Pokémon Go have millions of users, yet little is known about how the use of such games influences the nature of a user’s interaction with other users and their physical surroundings. To investigate how location-based games are integrated into a player’s daily life, how they influence a player’s mobility through the city, their perception of places and the role of human territoriality in this context, we have developed a location-based mobile multiplayer game called CityConqueror. In this paper, we present CityConqueror and the results of a study, which has focused on participants playing the game over a period of two weeks. The findings show that location-based games can be designed to give the player the illusion of playing in the context of the “real” world rather than a virtual or hybrid game reality. Our findings also suggest that location-based games can have a strong influence on a player’s mobility and perception of urban space and that human territoriality can be expressed through location-based games. Based on our findings we propose a series of design implications for the design of mobile location-based games.
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jul 7, 2017 |
Online Publication Date | Sep 19, 2017 |
Publication Date | Sep 19, 2017 |
Deposit Date | Sep 5, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | Dec 5, 2018 |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 1 |
Issue | 3 |
Article Number | 90 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1145/3130955 |
Public URL | http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3130955 |
Publisher URL | https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3139486.3130955 |
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