Low-fidelity Prototyping for Location-based, Social Games
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The document describes the PLACE approach for prototyping location-based, social games and apps. PLACE stands for Prototyping Location, Activities, and Collective Experience. It involves starting with low-fidelity prototypes to test activities and experiences in real-world locations in small groups before scaling up to more participants. The approach was used to prototype Floracaching, a location-based citizen science game similar to Geocaching, where participants find and scan QR codes at outdoor locations to complete activities and earn badges.
Low-fidelity Prototyping for Location-based, Social Games
- 1. Low Fidelity Prototyping for Location-based, Social Games Anne Bowser, Yurong He, Derek Hansen, Dana Rotman, Jenny Preece CSCW 2012: Mixed Reality Games Workshop
- 2. The PLACE Approach: Prototyping Location, Activities, &Collective Experience A scalable approach for prototyping location-based, social games and apps
- 3. Why is PLACE needed? Many apps, few prototyping approaches
- 4. Geocaching: A real-life treasure hunt
- 5. Floracaching: Geocaching for citizen scientists
- 6. We use PLACE to prototype Floracaching Find Floracaches Visit Floracaches Scan QR Codes Complete Activities Earn Badges
- 7. Location Social Experience Activities Time Problem Space: Condense and Represent
- 9. Scale up
- 10. Co-design basics: The mapSign Up Recruitment, Social sharing, Serendipitous discovery
- 11. Co-design basics: The mapChoose Activities After an introduction, participants choose what they want to do
- 12. 18 15 20 4 Co-design basics: The map Elevator Lounge Find Floracaches First a classroom, than a campus wide activity
- 13. Co-design basics: The mapVisit Floracaches Players visit real things
- 14. Get feedback, scale up
- 15. Start small, scale up, and let the users choose. Recap The PLACE Approach: Prototyping Location, Activities, &Collective Experience
- 16. 1. Low-fidelity prototypes should not be polished 2. Activities > Interfaces 3. Start small, scale up 4. Testing should be done in the field 5. Respect authentic social experience PLACE Principles
- 17. And thanks to Ryan Gamett, Jocelyn Raphael, and Matthew Reid Thank you! Questions?
Editor's Notes
- #4: even though these are being created, wedon't yet have good methods for prototyping new ones. that's why we'vedeveloped the PLACE approach.
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- #8: Two techniques we found in the literature are prototyping with a game board and prototyping with cards representing different mobile phone screensPrototyping with a game board- represents the social aspects of the gaming experience and condenses timePrototypnig with cars- allows users to test in an actual location and with an actual handheld mobile device