Requirements for Location-based Games for Social Interaction

Requirements for Location-based Games for Social Interaction

Fonseca, Xavier (TU Delft System Engineering)
Lukosch, S.G. (TU Delft System Engineering)
Lukosch, H.K. (TU Delft Policy Analysis)
Brazier, F.M. (TU Delft System Engineering)

2021

Social interaction is part of the fabric of society and is essential to challenge many types of social barriers. Location-based games (LBGs) provide a means to foster such interaction in local communities. The design of such games is currently based primarily on designer experience and on the literature on game design in general, and not on an understanding of user requirements. This article explores the preferences and desires of adolescents in neighborhoods of Rotterdam South to socially interact with others and engage with their own neighborhood via LBGs. Adolescents are informants in the exploration of gaming activities for social interaction, which, when subjected to expert review with the mechanics-dynamics-aesthetics framework, produce gameplay requirements for the desired purpose: social interaction in public space. Such requirements provide researchers and game designers insights on the game dynamics best suited to foster location-based social interaction.

adolescents
Conferences
Gameplay requirements
Games
Guidelines
Internet
Land mobile radio
Licenses
location-based games
public space
social interaction
Urban areas

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:62ae8124-9aa7-43b4-9b62-bc4dedd26a9a

https://doi.org/10.1109/TG.2021.3078834

2021-11-11

2475-1502

IEEE Transactions on Games, 14 (3), 377-390

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© 2021 Xavier Fonseca, S.G. Lukosch, H.K. Lukosch, F.M. Brazier