global gincana @ mobilefest '09
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Global Gincana @ Mobilefest ‘09by Ronald Lenz
Research head Locative Media @ Waag Society
Ronald Lenz
Creative Director @ 7scenes
Strategist, technologist and researcher in location-based mobile services and experiences
Amsterdam based Medialab
Waag Society
Creative technology for social innovation
Education, Healthcare, Arts&Culture, Sustainability & Public Domain
They have histories, invoke behavior, are personal, physical & virtual
Places - more than geography
Ever growing adoption of phones
Mobile technology trends
Multi-functional devices
Always connected & context-aware
Mobile web is the new internet
Strong distribution platforms for applications
Active participation and collaboration
Learning trends
Everyday life scenarios
Teacher as inspiration, coach and expert
Situation and experience based learning
Reflection: process, material and behavior
Donation: share, present to and create for
Creating new learning experiences on location
Creative Learning Lab & Locative Atelier
We have a new design challenge and need new tools!
The City is a Learning environment!
A new platform
Mobile and online platform for creating, publishing, playing and sharing GPS games and tours
7scenes
Create & Publish
All web-based, easy drag&drop interface
Select & configure templates such as role-playing, trading, treasure hunt & interactive story
Add tasks, photos, videos, sounds, notes & rewards to locations on a map
Publish for events or to everyone
Navigate places live on a map
Play
Location-based interaction: view media/content, perform tasks, upload photos and notes, pick up rewards
Multi-user gameplay: confrontations & trading, message with players
Collaborate with web-player
Navigate places live on a map
Play
Location-based interaction: view media/content, perform tasks, upload photos and notes, pick up rewards
Multi-user gameplay: confrontations & trading, message with players
Collaborate with web-player
Set up scene pages for your project’s communication
Share
All interaction can be broadcast live
All player interaction is archived for playback later
Share your project with widgets
Designed for use by organisations such as schools & universities, museums, tourist boards, event organisers, publishers and more
Project
Use for any kind of purpose and content
Full administration control to manage content, editors and users
Some examples
An educational mobile game blending mediaeval history out in the Amsterdam streets
Frequency 1550
Navigating a historic map, meeting historic characters
Multi-player competition with web-based players
Proven educational value
Mobile Learning Game KitA full set of production tools
Full toolkit to create mobile ‘lessons’ with
Mobile Learning Game Kit
First in its kind
collaboration UvA and Medialab Amsterdam
Learn by creating and playing mobile games
Games Atelier
Full educational program
Available in all Dutch schools
To be used for any curriculum
Photographic treasure hunt exploring Hong Kong’s architecture
Re-architect
Think like an architect for a day
Collaboration HK Design Institute and Polytechnic University
Role playing game about Dutch roots of NYC
Fort Amsterdam
Strong theatrics and physical gameplay
Lasting experience
Role playing game about Dutch roots of NYC
Fort Amsterdam
Strong theatrics and physical gameplay
Lasting experience
Urban game on shared trading history of Amsterdam and NYC
The Island
Connecting the two cities in real-time!
Players trade like merchants did 400 years ago
Respond to the changing market values determined by historic facts
Urban environment as inspiration, context and trigger: historical, social, cultural, personal perspective
Urban gaming principles
Storyline: meta narratives vs micro narrative and blackbox structures
Gameplay: games rules, social interaction, collaboration
Problem solving: just in time & on-demand info, skills as strategies, realworld situations
Theatrics: dark players, actors and props, create settings
Global Gincana
Global GincanaAn international collaboration
Exploring new uses of mobile technology in society
A logical collaboration
Seeing the city as a playground
Big city opportunities and challenges
Connecting young people in two multi-ethnic cities: SP and A’dam
Global Gincana
Exploring culture exchange using next-generation mobile tools
Researching a new educational format
Global GincanaCombining traditional Gincana with mobile gaming: Mobile Gincana
Creating cultural games for students in another city
Playing cultural games made by students from another city
Take a cultural theme: food, language, arts&culture, music& dance, ...
A Mobile Gincana game
Pick your favorite national, personal and local examples
Find and create expressive media to illustrate them
Add a Gincana activity: object search, social interaction, cultural match or artistic expression
Map these as 7scenes tasks to city locations in the other city
Give your game as a cultural present to students in the other city
pilot, workshop and presentations
Results phase 1
Avenida Paulista: language, architecture and art & design
Pilots
Villa Madalena: Street Art / Gra!ti
Avenida Paulista: language, architecture and art & design
Pilots
Villa Madalena: Street Art / Gra!ti
Avenida Paulista: language, architecture and art & design
Pilots
Villa Madalena: Street Art / Gra!ti
students and teachers working in teams
Workshop
creating Mobile Gincana games
Great creativity and local traditions & scenarios used
Presentations of results
Campus Party conference Sao Paulo
great feedback
first results are in...
Results phase 2
first results are in...
Results phase 2
New technology in education festival
Picnic Young
Part of Picnic festival - largest crossmedia festival of Europe
Connected pilot - Play Mobile Gincana games
Live video stream connecting SP & A’dam
Facilitate more exchanges between students
What’s next for Global Gincana?
Research learning e"ects and explore embedding in schoolsystem
Connect more cities & countries
Strengthen relationship with Mobilefest
7scenes ♥ Mobilefest
Partnership
O!cial Brazilian reseller and project partner
Paulo Hartmann
Marcelo Godoy
Major design updates
The very near future
iPhone app
Mobile browser app
Open API
Portuguese translations
A design toolkit for mobile location-based projects
What could 7scenes be to a university?
A new way to publish educational content
A development platform for IT students
A way to promote learning outside building walls and schooltimes
Multi purpose: interactive media, game design, information technology,theatre, social studies, geography, biology fieldwork, architecture, photography and more.
We have only just started with location-based mobile apps
So how about the future?
Augmented Reality - just a hype?
A new mass medium & design paradigm
The City will have an API and it will be realtime
Exploring Cities, but also connecting Cities
Social Play will make the di"erence
ronald@waag.org
Thanks! Any Questions?
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