research-article

Navigating the world and learning to like it: mobility training through a pervasive game

Authors:

Charlotte Magnusson,

Kirsten Rassmus Gröhn,

Helen Bernhardsson,

Per-Olof HedvallAuthors Info & Claims

MobileHCI '11: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services

Pages 285 - 294

https://doi.org/10.1145/2037373.2037416

Published: 30 August 2011 Publication History

Abstract

This paper introduces the idea that location based pervasive games can be used to make mobility training for visually impaired children more fun. The user centred development process which has been carried out in collaboration with both visually impaired children and rehabilitation staff is described and we present a novel game concept which combines locative play, sound traces and a physical catch movement. We report and discuss results of user tests and summarize our experience in a set of tentative development and design guidelines for this type of game.

References

[1]

Bell, M., Chalmers, M., Barkhuus, L., Hall, M., Sherwood, S., Tennent, P., Brown, B., Rowland, D-, Benford, S., Capra, M. & Hampshire, A. (2006). Interweaving mobile games with everyday life. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems (CHI '06)

Digital Library

[2]

Benford, S., Crabtree, A., Flintham, M., Drozd, A., Anastasi, R., Paxton, M., Tandavanitj, N., Adams, M. & Row-Farr, J. (2006). Can you see me now?. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 13, 1 (March 2006), 100--133.

Digital Library

[3]

Bichard, J., Brunnberg, L., Combetto, M., Gustafsson, A. and Juhlin, O. (2006). Backseat Playgrounds: Pervasive Storytelling in Vast Location Based Games. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Entertainment Computing (Cambridge, UK, September 20-22, 2006), ICEC'06, Springer Verlag, pp. 117--122

Digital Library

[4]

Björk, S., et al. (2001). Pirates! - Using the Physical World as a Game Board. In proceedings of Interact 2001.

[5]

Blasch, Bruce B., Wiener, William R., Welsh, Richard L. (Red.) (1997). Foundations of orientation and mobility (Second edition) New York, NY: American Foundation for the Blind. AFB Press.

[6]

Brooks, T., & Petersson, E. (2005). Play Therapy Utilizing the Sony EyeToy®®. In Presence 2005: The Eight International Workshop on Presence (pp. 303). Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University.

[7]

Brunnberg, l., Juhlin, O., and Gustafsson, A. Games for passengers - Accounting for motion in location-based applications. Proc. FDG'09, Port Canaveral, FL, USA. ACM.

Digital Library

[8]

Bødker, S. and Buur, J. 2002. The design collaboratorium: a place for usability design. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 9, 2 (Jun. 2002), 152--169.

Digital Library

[9]

Carrigy, T., Naliuka, K., Paterson, N., Haahr, M., 2010. Design and evaluation of player experience of a location-based mobile game. In Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries (NordiCHI '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 92--101.

Digital Library

[10]

Cheok, A. D., Fong, S. W., Goh, K. H, Yang, X, Liu, W. & Farzbiz, F. (2003). Human Pacman: a sensing-based mobile entertainment system with ubiquitous computing and tangible interaction. In Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on Network and system support for games (NetGames '03). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 106--117

Digital Library

[11]

Deutsch, J. E., Borbely, M., Filler, J., Huhn, K., & Guarrera-Bowlby, P. (2008). Use of a Low-Cost, Commercially Available Gaming Console (Wii) for Rehabilitation of an Adolescent With Cerebral Palsy. Physical Therapy, 88(10), 1196--1207.

[12]

Grammenos, D., Savidis, A., Stephanidis C. (2005). UA-Chess: A Universally Accessible Board Game. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. G. Salvendy (ed.). Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 2005. Lawrence Erlbaum.

[13]

Holland, S., Morse, D. R., Gedenryd, H.: Audiogps: Spatial audio in a minimal attention interface. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 6(4) (2001) 6

Digital Library

[14]

Holmberg, K., Hull, K., Thorbjörnson, L., Svensson, A., Svensson, A., Wicklander, K., (2008), Utveckling av Nationell standard för syncentralerna i Sverige i Orientering och Förflyttning (O&F) (Development of a national standard for mobility training in Sweden)

[15]

http://barcodebeats.hobye.dk/ (accessed 2011-02-16)

[16]

http://gameaccess.medialt.no (accessed 2011-02-16).

[17]

http://oneswitch.org.uk/ (accessed 2011-02-16)

[18]

http://www.appbrain.com/app/zombie-run/net.peterd.zombierun (accessed 2011-02-16)

[19]

http://www.booyah.com/products/mytown (accessed 2011-02-16)

[20]

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1764/unified_design_of_universally_.php (accessed 2011-02-16).

[21]

http://www.ics.forth.gr/hci/ua-games/ (accessed 2011-02-16)

[22]

http://www.igda.org/accessibility (accessed 2011-02-16)

[23]

http://www.tacticalsoundgarden.net/ (accessed 2011-02-16)

[24]

http://www.viktoria.se/~lalya/track/ (accessed 2011-02-16)

[25]

Jönsson, B., Magnusson, C., Eftring, H., Capturing better data, UserTalk, Issue 6, pp 4--5, Autumn 1995

[26]

Linderoth, J. & Ohlson, C. (2010) Väärlden som spelplan (The world as a game board). Available at http://www.medieradet.se/upload/Broschyrer_PDF/Varl den_som_spelplan.pdf

[27]

Magnusson, C., Breidegard, B., Rassmus-Gröhn, K.: (2009) Soundcrumbs - Hansel and Gretel in the 21st century, In Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (HAID '09)

[28]

Magnusson, C., Molina, M., Rassmus-Gröhn, K., Szymczak, D., Pointing for non-visual orientation and navigation, Proceedings of NordiCHI 2010, October 16-20, 2010, Reykjavik, Iceland

Digital Library

[29]

Magnusson, C., Rassmus-Gröhn, K., Szymczak, D., The influence of angle size in navigation applications using pointing gestures, The fifth International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (HAID), September 16--17, 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark

Digital Library

[30]

McGookin, D., Brewster, S., Prieg, P., (2009): Audio Bubbles: Employing Non-speech Audio to Support Tourist Wayfinding, In Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (HAID '09)

Digital Library

[31]

Montola, M., Stenros, J., and Waern, A. (2009) Pervasive games: theory and design. Morgan Kaufmann.

Digital Library

[32]

Oulasvirta, A., Tamminen, S., Roto, V. and Kuorelahti, J. (2006) Interaction in 4--second bursts: the fragmented nature of attentional resources in mobile HCI. CHI 2006, pp 919--928

Digital Library

[33]

Pielot, M. & Boll, S. Tactile Wayfinder: Comparison of Tactile Waypoint Navigation with Commercial Pedestrian Navigation Systems. The Eighth International Conference on Pervasive Computing, 2010

Digital Library

[34]

Robinson, S., Eslambolchilar, P., Jones, M. (2009) Sweep-Shake: Finding Digital Resources in Physical Environments, In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI '09)

Digital Library

[35]

Robinson, S., Jones, M., Eslambolchilar, P., Murray-Smith, R., Lindborg, M. "I Did It My Way": Moving Away from the Tyranny of Turn-by-Turn Pedestrian Navigation, Accepted in MobileHCI 2010, 7--10 September 2010, Lisbon, Portugal, ACM

Digital Library

[36]

Sotamaa, O. (2002). All the World's a Botfighters Stage: Notes on Location-based Multi-user Gaming. In proceedings of Computer Games and Digital Cultures Conference, 2002.

[37]

Stahl, C.: The roaring navigator: A group guide for the zoo with shared auditory landmark display. In: MobileHCI 2007. Volume 1., Singapore, ACM (2007) 282--386

Digital Library

[38]

Strachan, S., Eslambolchilar, P., Murray-Smith, R.: gpstunes - controlling navigation via audio feedback. In: MobileHCI 2005. Volume 1., Salzburg, Austria, ACM (2005) 275--278

Digital Library

[39]

Thomas, B., Close, B., Donoghue, J., Squires, J., De Bondi, P., Morris, M. & Piekarski, W. (2000). ARQuake: An Outdoor/Indoor Augmented Reality First Person Application. In Proceedings of the Fourth

[40]

Vazquez-Alvarez, Y., Oakley, I. and Brewster, S. A. (2010) Urban Sound Gardens: Supporting Overlapping Audio Landmarks in Exploratory Environments. In Proceedings of Multimodal Location-based Techniques for Extreme Navigation workshop, Pervasive 2010 (Helsinki, Finland).

[41]

Wilson, J., Walker, BN, Lindsay, J., Cambi, F., Dellaert, F. (2007): Swan: System for Wearable Audio Navigation. In: ISWC 2007th Volume 1st, Boston, MA

Digital Library

[42]

Vygotsky, L. S., Imagination and Creativity in Childhood, Journal of Russian and East European Psychology, vol. 42, no. 1, January-February 2004, pp. 7--97

Cited By

Gilberto LBermejo FTommasini FGarcía Bauza C(2024)Virtual Reality Audio Game for Entertainment and Sound Localization TrainingACM Transactions on Applied Perception10.1145/367655722:1(1-24)Online publication date: 28-Nov-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3676557
Coronado ACarvalho SBerretta L(2023)Game accessibility: Adaptation of a digital escape room game to improve spatial cognitive skills on blind peopleProceedings of the 25th Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality10.1145/3625008.3625039(174-182)Online publication date: 6-Nov-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3625008.3625039
Siriaraya PKiriu TShe WMittal MKawai YNakajima S(2023)Investigating the use of Spatialized Audio Augmented Reality to enhance the outdoor running experienceEntertainment Computing10.1016/j.entcom.2022.10053444(100534)Online publication date: Jan-2023
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.entcom.2022.100534
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

Navigating the world and learning to like it: mobility training through a pervasive game
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
2. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Multimedia information systems

Recommendations

Playing with the weather
ICEC'12: Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Entertainment Computing

In this paper the contribution of real time weather data to player enjoyment was tested and evaluated. To gauge the contribution of weather to player engagement an adaptronic, multiplayer, location based game, where real time weather data is key to the ...
"If you've gone straight, now, you must turn left" - Exploring the use of a tangible interface in a collaborative treasure hunt for people with visual impairments
ASSETS '20: Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Tangible User Interfaces (TUI) have been found to be relevant tools for collaborative learning by providing a shared workspace and enhancing joint visual attention. Researchers have explored the use of TUIs in a variety of curricular activities and found ...
Co-located games created by children with visual impairments
MobileHCI '15: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct

The present paper reports on a games workshop within the ABBI EU project involving children with visual impairments as co-creators. The created games show that it is possible to create fun, rich and social co-located games with wearable technology ...

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Other conferences

MobileHCI '11: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services

August 2011

781 pages

ISBN:9781450305419

DOI:10.1145/2037373

General Chair:
Markus Bylund
Swedish INstitute of Computer Science (SICS)
,
Program Chairs:
Oskar Juhlin
Mobile Life Centre, Stockholm University
,
Ylva Fernaeus
Mobile Life Centre, SICS

Copyright © 2011 ACM.

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Sponsors

Nokia
Swedish Institute of Computer Science: Swedish Institute of Computer Science
ERICSSON

In-Cooperation

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 30 August 2011

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Research-article

Conference

MobileHCI '11

Sponsor:

Swedish Institute of Computer Science

MobileHCI '11: 13th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services

August 30 - September 2, 2011

Stockholm, Sweden

Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 202 of 906 submissions, 22%

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

21
Total Citations
View Citations
537
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)12
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)3

Reflects downloads up to 05 Jan 2025

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Gilberto LBermejo FTommasini FGarcía Bauza C(2024)Virtual Reality Audio Game for Entertainment and Sound Localization TrainingACM Transactions on Applied Perception10.1145/367655722:1(1-24)Online publication date: 28-Nov-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3676557
Coronado ACarvalho SBerretta L(2023)Game accessibility: Adaptation of a digital escape room game to improve spatial cognitive skills on blind peopleProceedings of the 25th Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality10.1145/3625008.3625039(174-182)Online publication date: 6-Nov-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3625008.3625039
Siriaraya PKiriu TShe WMittal MKawai YNakajima S(2023)Investigating the use of Spatialized Audio Augmented Reality to enhance the outdoor running experienceEntertainment Computing10.1016/j.entcom.2022.10053444(100534)Online publication date: Jan-2023
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.entcom.2022.100534
Thevin LRodier NOriola BHachet MJouffrais CBrock A(2021)Inclusive Adaptation of Existing Board Games for Gamers with and without Visual Impairments using a Spatial Augmented Reality Framework for Touch Detection and Audio FeedbackProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/34885505:ISS(1-33)Online publication date: 5-Nov-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3488550
India GY VO ADiwakar NJain MVashistha ASwaminathan MKitamura YQuigley AIsbister KIgarashi TBjørn PDrucker S(2021)Teachers’ Perceptions around Digital Games for Children in Low-resource Schools for the BlindProceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3411764.3445194(1-17)Online publication date: 6-May-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445194
Magnusson CRassmus-Gröhn KRydeman B(2020)Developing a mobile activity game for stroke survivors—lessons learnedJournal on Multimodal User Interfaces10.1007/s12193-020-00342-y14:3(303-312)Online publication date: 23-Jul-2020
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12193-020-00342-y
da Rocha Tomé Filho FMirza-Babaei PKapralos BMoreira Mendonça Junior GBrewster SFitzpatrick GCox AKostakos V(2019)Let's Play TogetherProceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3290605.3300861(1-15)Online publication date: 2-May-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3290605.3300861
Caltenco HMagnusson CRydeman BFinocchietti SCappagli GCocchi EBen Porquis LBaud-Bovy GGori M(2018)Co-Designing Wearable Technology Together With Visually Impaired ChildrenWearable Technologies10.4018/978-1-5225-5484-4.ch016(314-332)Online publication date: 2018
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5484-4.ch016
Magnusson CRassmus-Gröhn KRydeman BCaltenco H(2018)Walk after strokeProceedings of the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct10.1145/3236112.3236145(237-244)Online publication date: 3-Sep-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3236112.3236145
Regal GMattheiss ESellitsch DTscheligi MBailie LOliver N(2018)Mobile location-based games to support orientation & mobility training for visually impaired studentsProceedings of the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services10.1145/3229434.3229472(1-12)Online publication date: 3-Sep-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3229434.3229472
Show More Cited By

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Media

Figures

Other

Tables

View Table of Contents