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BibliographyStach, Christoph: Gamework - A customizable framework for pervasive games (Doctoral Colloquium).
In: Becker, Christian (ed.); Krishnaswamy, Shonali (ed.); Zaruba, Gergely (ed.); Chakraborty, Dipanjan (ed.); Luimula, Mika (ed.); Indulska, Jadwiga (ed.); Gaber, Mohamed Medhat (ed.); Loke, Seng Wai (ed.); Waluyo Agustinus Borgy (ed.): ICPS '10: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Pervasive services; Berlin, Germany, July 13 - 15, 2010.
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pp. 168-173, english.
ACM Press, July 2010.
ISBN: 978-1-4503-0249-4.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CR-SchemaD.2.13 (Software Engineering Reusable Software)
H.2.8 (Database Applications)
K.8 (Personal Computing)
KeywordsMobile services, pervasive multi-player games; customizable framework
Abstract

Location-based applications and services gain in importance as the spread of mobile devices equipped with GPS sensors and internet capabilities increases. Moreover, there is a trend towards customizable applications in order to let the user determine e.g. the content and the look and feel. Nevertheless, there exist only a few applications combining these features.

In this paper, we propose Gamework, a framework for customizable mobile location-based games as a specialization for customizable mobile context-aware applications and services. According to their programming skills players are able to adapt a game with Gamework. This can be done by changing the context, adding user-generated content, modifying the game-flow or implementing new games from scratch by reusing existing modules of the framework or adding new ones. Therefore our framework features a reuse-oriented development methodology as well as a feedback loop analyzing all accruing user-generated content. The results of this analysis are used to automatically optimize the game with respect to frequent user-feedback. Finally, we will transfer the results back to the more general area of mobile and context-aware applications and services.

CopyrightACM
ContactChristoph.Stach@ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de
Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Applications of Parallel and Distributed Systems
Project(s)Sonderforschungsbereich SFB 627 (Nexus: Umgebungsmodelle für mobile kontextbezogene Systeme)
Entry dateAugust 30, 2010
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