Smart Magic City Run: Exploring the Implications of Public Augmented Reality Games

This paper presents an augmented reality smart city gaming concept, Magic Run. Magic Run has entertainment value and fulfills its’ original brief, but several aspects of the game were found to be problematic during a workshop with smart city researchers. We present problematic aspects of the game as...

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Published inIntelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment Vol. 215; pp. 151 - 158
Main Authors Pargman, Daniel, Ringenson, Tina, Rivera, Miriam Börjesson, Schmitz, Lisa, Krinaki, Maria, Prekratic, Nino, Lundkvist, Björn
Format Book Chapter Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Springer International Publishing
SeriesLecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
Subjects
Augmented reality
Design fiction
Pervasive games
Smart city
Speculative design
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Summary:This paper presents an augmented reality smart city gaming concept, Magic Run. Magic Run has entertainment value and fulfills its’ original brief, but several aspects of the game were found to be problematic during a workshop with smart city researchers. We present problematic aspects of the game as well as ideas for how to redesign the game to control or ameliorate problematic interaction between future smart city players and bystanders.
ISBN:3319730614
9783319730615
ISSN:1867-8211
1867-822X
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-73062-2_14