Introduction: Transnational Play

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Schleiner
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Game Studies ◽  
Mobile Augmented Reality ◽  
Mobile Games ◽  
Global Industry ◽  
Geographically Distributed ◽  
Theoretical Line ◽  
First World ◽  
Augmented Reality Game

Transnational Play makes a case for approaching gameplay as a global industry and set of practices that also includes diverse participation from players and developers located within the global South, in nations outside of the First World. Such participation includes gameplay in cafés, games for regional and global causes like environmentalism, piracy and cheats, localization, urban playful art in Latin America, and the development of culturally unique mobile games. This book offers a reorientation of perspective on global play, while still acknowledging geographically distributed socioeconomic, racial, gender, and other inequities. Over the course of the inquiry, which includes a chapter dedicated to the cartography of the mobile augmented reality game Pokémon Go, I develop a theoretical line of argument critically informed by gender studies and intersectionality, post-colonialism, geopolitics, and game studies. This book looks at who develops, localizes, and consumes games, problematizing play as a diverse and contested transnational domain.

Transnational Play

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Schleiner
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Game Studies ◽  
Mobile Augmented Reality ◽  
Global Industry ◽  
Casual Games ◽  
Geographically Distributed ◽  
Theoretical Line ◽  
First World ◽  
Augmented Reality Game

Transnational Play approaches gameplay as a set of practices and a global industry that includes diverse participation from players and developers located within the global South, in nations outside of the First World. Players experience play in game cafes, through casual games for regional and global causes like environmentalism, through piracy and cheats, via cultural localization, on their mobile phones, and through urban playful art in Latin America. This book offers a reorientation of perspective on the global developers who make games, as well as the players who consume games, while still acknowledging geographically distributed socioeconomic, racial, gender, and other inequities. Over the course of the inquiry, which includes a chapter dedicated to the cartography of the mobile augmented reality game Pokémon Go, the author develops a theoretical line of argument critically informed by gender studies and intersectionality, postcolonialism, geopolitics, and game studies, problematizing play as a diverse and contested transnational domain.

scholarly journals Player Control in a Real-Time Mobile Augmented Reality Game

2012 ◽  
pp. 393-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mareike Picklum ◽  
Georg Modzelewski ◽  
Susanne Knoop ◽  
Toke Lichtenberg ◽  
Philipp Dittmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Mobile Augmented Reality ◽  
Augmented Reality Game

scholarly journals An Interactive Information System That Supports an Augmented Reality Game in the Context of Game-Based Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Maria Cristina Costa ◽  
Paulo Santos ◽  
João Manuel Patrício ◽  
António Manso
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Information System ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Grade Level ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Mobile Augmented Reality ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
Celestial Bodies ◽  
Augmented Reality Game ◽  
The Web

Mobile augmented reality applications are gaining prominence in education, but there is a need to design appropriate and enjoyable games to be used in educational contexts such as classrooms. This paper presents an interactive information system designed to support the implementation of an augmented reality application in the context of game-based learning. PlanetarySystemGO includes a location-based mobile augmented reality game designed to promote learning about the celestial bodies and planetary systems of the Universe, and a web application that interacts with the mobile device application. Besides face-to-face classes, this resource can also be used in online classes, which is very useful in social isolation situations as the ones caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, it is the inclusion of the web application, with a back-office, in the information system that makes it possible to include curricula contents according to the grade level of students. Moreover, it is intended that teachers use the information system to include the contents they find appropriate to the grade level they teach. Therefore, it is crucial to provide their professional development to be able to use this resource. In this regard, a pilot study was conducted with teachers who participated in a STEM professional development programme in order to assess if the system is appropriate to be used by them. It is concluded that teachers found this resource relevant to motivate students to learn, and also acknowledged that the web application facilitated the introduction of appropriate curricula contents and also was useful to assess student performance during the game. Teachers need support, however, to implement these types of technologies which are not familiar to them. The necessary support can be provided through collaboration among the researchers and teachers in their schools. Besides engaging students to learn about celestial bodies, it is concluded that the information system can be used by teachers to introduce appropriate curricula contents and to be implemented in class.

scholarly journals Design and Evaluation of an Augmented Reality Game for Cybersecurity Awareness (CybAR)

Information ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamed Alqahtani ◽  
Manolya Kavakli-Thorne
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Conceptual Learning ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
Mobile Games ◽  
Warning Messages ◽  
User Awareness ◽  
Augmented Reality Game

The number of damaging cyberattacks is increasing exponentially due in part to lack of user awareness of risky online practices, such as visiting unsafe websites, ignoring warning messages, and communicating with unauthenticated entities. Although research has established the role that game-based learning can play in cognitive development and conceptual learning, relatively few serious mobile games have been developed to educate users about different forms of cyberattack and ways of avoiding them. This paper reports the development of an effective augmented reality (AR) game designed to increase cybersecurity awareness and knowledge in an active and entertaining way. The Cybersecurity Awareness using Augmented Reality (CybAR) game is an AR mobile application that teaches not only cybersecurity concepts, but also demonstrates the consequences of actual cybersecurity attacks through feedback. The design and evaluation of the application are described in detail. A survey was conducted to verify the effectiveness of the game received positive responses from 91 participants. The results indicate that CybAR is useful for players to develop an understanding of cybersecurity attacks and vulnerabilities.

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