Backseat Playground
The purpose of the project is to design and implement a game prototype that enables kids/big kids travelling in the back seat of cars to enjoy a rich gaming experience where narrative episodes and embedded gameplay combine with the experience of traveling through the road network. The game and game story will be designed to be meaningful even when the tempo and order of the journey changes.
CatchBob!
CatchBob! is an experimental platform in the form of a mobile game for running psychological experiments. It is designed to elicit collaborative behavior of people working together on a mobile activity.
CellDB
CellDB is an open database which links the cells that make up mobile networks, to their location. Cell locations can be used for location deteminence of mobile handsets. Currently, most applications create their own cell database. Our philosophy is that these applications should compete on features, not on cell coverage. If they use a common database, all applications will work better, enhancing the user experience. That's why we build an open database, that any application can use.
CitiTag
CitiTag is a wireless location-based multiplayer game, designed to enhance spontaneous social interaction and novel experiences in city environments by integrating virtual presence with physical. In the first version of CitiTag you roam the city with a GPS- and WiFi-enabled iPaq PocketPC in search for players of the opposite team that you can ‘tag’. You can also get tagged yourself if one of them gets close to you. Then you need to find a friend to free you. Urban space becomes a playground and everyone is a suspect.
Interactive Institute
Interactive Institute is a Swedish non-profit, experimental IT-research institute that challenges traditional perspectives through combining art, design and technology in research projects and strategic initiatives. Through exploring and integrating these three areas the institute contributes to innovation, creativity and sustainable development.
IPerG
IPerG is a EU-FP6 project on Pervasive Gaming - games that integrate the technical approaches of computer gaming with emerging interface, wireless and positioning technologies to create game experiences that combine both virtual and physical game elements
Locomatrix.
During the Summer of 2006 there were many reports about the increasing level of obesity particularly amongst children. At the same time, there were increasing concerns about children spending more and more time indoors, particularly in front of screens whether watching television or playing computer games.I thought that to make it compelling for youngsters to play outdoors these days, one would have to make games more compelling, and it seemed a logical step to imagine how we could take computer games outdoors. Already using GPS as an accessory to our walks, it seemed natural to base games around GPS, particularly as it becomes an accepted technology.
Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS)
Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), is a non-profit research organization with approximately 100 researchers. The main office is situated in Kista outside Stockholm with smaller offices in Uppsala, Göteborg, and Västerås.
The Fugitive
The Fugitive is a multiplayer, location-based, collaborative game that is played using mobile TabletPCs in a natural campus environment. The objective is to track and capture a hidden object called the Fugitive on a digital campus map using annotations for communication among one’s teammates.
Waag Society
The medialab developed into an avant-gardistic thinktank whith a lot of freedom. But with an eye for commercial possibilities: attempts were made to bring Waag prototypes to the market. Waag Society grew into an institution that was active in the fields of networked art, healthcare, education and internet related issues like bandwidth and copyright.