Deploying and evaluating a mixed reality mobile treasure hunt: Snap2Play

ABSTRACT

With the current trend, we can anticipate that future mobile phones will have ever-increasing computational power and be able to embed several captors/effectors including cameras, GPS, orientation sensors, tactile surfaces and vibro-tactile display. Such powerful mobile platforms enable us to deploy mixed reality systems. Many studies on mobile mixed reality focus on games. In this paper, we describe the deployment and a user study of a mixed reality location-based mobile treasure hunt, Snap2Play[1], using technologies such as place recognition, accelerometers and GPS tracking for enhancing the interaction with the game and therefore the game playability. The game that we deployed and tested is running on an off-the-shelf camera phone.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)

General Terms:
Algorithms, Human Factors

Keywords:
location awareness, mobile mixed reality, place recognition