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Tech Report kmi-04-24 Abstract
Urban space as a large-scale group playground
Techreport ID: kmi-04-24
Date: 2004
Author(s): Yanna Vogiazou and Bas Raijmakers
In this paper, I describe CitiTag, a research project aiming to explore the potential of spontaneous social behaviour and playful group interaction in public spaces through the use of mobile technologies. I discuss briefly the idea and motivating themes, the design of CitiTag, a wireless location based multiplayer game and findings from two user studies.
Publication(s):
Appeared in: The Workshop: 'UbiComp in the Urban Frontier' at the UbiComp 2004 Conference, September 7-10, Nottingham, England
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