Games and Social Networks BHCI WORKSHOP 6 SEPT 04

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Games and Social NetworksBHCI WORKSHOP 6 SEPT 04
Analysis of a Location-Based Multi-Player Game

• Nicolas Nova
• Fabien Girardin
• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne

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Research Question(s)

• How location awareness impacts collaboration,
  coordination, group interaction?
• How can we analyze collaborative mobile
  activities? How should games be studied? What
  kinds of data capture and analysis are important?

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Research Overview

• CatchBob a mobile game collaborative hunting on
  our campus

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Findings

• Experiments currently running
• Participatory design thanks to pre-tests
• Different spatial and communicaiton patterns

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Themes

• How can the emerging mobile and ubicomp games
  support sociability?
• How should games be studied? What kinds of data
  capture and analysis are important?
• Interaction analysis how to analyze a
  collaborative mobile activity (interaction
  players/environment and players-players)