Title
A method to assess pervasive qualities in mobile games.
Abstract
Software designers are facing huge challenges imposed by a new generation of applications that mix real and digital worlds, such as pervasive games. This type of game has recently become a worldwide phenomenon, with thousands of people walking in the streets with smartphones to interact with the physical environment. In this paper, we propose a new method to assess pervasive qualities in pervasive mobile games, which can be customized and extended to other ubiquitous applications. This method generates a quality report, which consists of a quality spreadsheet (containing metric values and comments) and a quality vector (representing the game quality profile in the form of a bar chart). In addition, we can compare quality vectors using similarity criteria. In this paper, we apply the proposed method to commercial and academic prototype games to shed more light on their pervasive characteristics and identify ways to improve the overall quality that sets these games apart from traditional digital games—that is, pervasiveness.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/s00779-017-1107-0
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Pervasive mobile games, Pervasiveness, Non-functional requirements, Ubiquitous systems, Game design
Ubiquitous systems,Bar chart,Computer science,Game design,Human–computer interaction,Software,Multimedia,Non-functional requirement
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
22
4
1617-4917
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
26
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luis Valente1737.79
Bruno Feijó220029.85
Julio Cesar Sampaio do Prado Leite32190180.49
Esteban W. Gonzalez Clua427953.69