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Woody: a location-based smartphone game to increase children's outdoor activities in urban environments

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MUM '15: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2836041.2841210

Published: 30 November 2015 Publication History

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This work describes the design of a smartphone-based game that aims to increase children's outdoor activity through location-based interactions. In the game, players have to physically go outside, find real trees, and interact with them using their smartphones in order to keep the game's character (a timber worm) alive. First evaluation results show that children enjoyed playing and increased their outdoor activity.

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Woody: a location-based smartphone game to increase children's outdoor activities in urban environments
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Ubiquitous and mobile computing
    1. Ubiquitous and mobile computing systems and tools

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MUM '15: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

November 2015

442 pages

ISBN:9781450336055

DOI:10.1145/2836041

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Clemens Holzmann
University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg, Austria
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Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria
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University of Lapland
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University of Ulm
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University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria

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