Urbansensing Karl 01

Urban GamingYucheng Lin (Karl)

http://senseable.mit.edu/pink/files/Support%20Me.pdfAylin Yildrim, Sensable City Lab

?Urban Gaming?

Game

• A location-based game (or location-enabled game)

location• GPS• Wifi

• Street• mall

Video Game

Urban Game

Online Game

Well-known Leisure

Un-Known leisure

Comparison

Pac-Manhattan

http://pacmanhattan.com/

2004

Technology used: cell phones

Geocachhttp://www.geocaching.com/

Hide and Seek for Objects (caches)

890,254 Sep 3,2009

100 countries

Technology used: GPS, Google map

Geocachhttp://www.geocaching.com/

Geocach

Can you see me now?Blast Theory

Technology used: Wifi, GPS

Last Will

http://www.last-will.org/

Technology used:Internet, sensors

More than games?

Game with a purpose

by Luis von Ahn and Laura Dabbish

CityExplorer

Designing Location-based Mobile Games with a Purpose -Collecting Geospatial Data with CityExplorer

Sebastian Matyas, and others

Bill McKenna (2009)http://senseable.mit.edu/pink/files/

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