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Title: Co-Designing Location-based Games for Broadband Data Collection
Crowdsourced data collection is a scalable approach to collecting mobile broadband performance data across space. However, existing platforms for crowdsourced mobile broadband measurements are not designed to engage workers over time or space, which can lead to spatial misrepresentation and stale data. With the insight that games and play ofer naturally engaging frameworks for users, we held fve iterative, participatory design sessions with 11 participants to co-design a catalog of 11 game concepts that could be used to create more spatially representative mobile broadband data sets. Importantly, we found that while games varied substantially with respect to theme, all used a few common game mechanics to incorporate mobile broadband data collection into play. This indicates that a designed prototype might focus on offering a customizable gaming structure that would allow communities and individuals to create thematic content that could overlay onto a set of common mechanics that could support more representative geospatial data collection.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2145861
PAR ID:
10521133
Author(s) / Creator(s):
; ; ; ;
Publisher / Repository:
ACM
Date Published:
ISBN:
9798400705830
Page Range / eLocation ID:
2057 to 2072
Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
broadband measurement mobile broadband location-based games serious games body storming participatory design research through design
Format(s):
Medium: X
Location:
IT University of Copenhagen Denmark
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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