Games for passengers: accounting for motion in location-based applications

Passengers pay attention to the landscape as they move through the environment. We suggest a new type of applications, which adds to that experience. It consider their motion and velocity, which make the time available for interaction with individual geographical objects very limited, at the same time as they cannot control it. Applications, in this case a game, could utilize audio and gesture interfaces, as well as digital maps to provide for experiences that are sequentially mapped onto the landscape. An initial user feed back trial made visible interactional and experiential challenges in passengering. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.5.1 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: Multimedia Information Systems - Artificial, augmented, and virtual realities; H.5.2 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: User interfaces; K.8 [Personal Computing]: Games. General Terms Design, Human Factors Keywords Pervasive game, movement, velocity, backseat playground, passengers, mobile dev...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: FDG
• Authors: Liselott Brunnberg, Oskar Juhlin, Anton Gustafsson
• Keywords: Computer Graphics, FDG 2009, Individual Geographical Objects, Information Interfaces, Passengers Pay Attention