Phonoloco: Facilitating Playful Interactions with Location Aware Smartphones
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Abstract
The Phonoloco technology allows to repurpose a set of regular smartphones into a system that allows for playful interactions. The most important feature of the proposed system is the use of the front-facing camera and a pattern on the ceiling in order to sense the position of each device lying on a flat surface at centimeter precision. This way each smartphone becomes a digital manipulative that can be displaced by the player. The details of the technology will be revealed and an overview of possible interactions will be given. Two games were developed and tested with preschoolers, illustrating the feasibility of the system.
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DOI:10.1145/3270316
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