TY  - CONF
AU  - Stach, Christoph
A2  - Becker, Christian
A2  - Krishnaswamy, Shonali
A2  - Zaruba, Gergely
A2  - Chakraborty, Dipanjan
A2  - Luimula, Mika
A2  - Indulska, Jadwiga
A2  - Gaber, Mohamed Medhat
A2  - Loke, Seng Wai
A2  - Waluyo, Agustinus Borgy
T1  - Gamework: A customizable framework for pervasive games
T2  - Proceedings of the 7ᵗʰ International Conference on Pervasive Services
PB  - ACM
AD  - Berlin
Y1  - 2010/july
SP  - 168
EP  - 173
KW  - mobile services; pervasive multi-player games; customizable framework
N2  - Location-based applications and services gain in importance as the spread of mobile devices equipped with GPS sensors and internet capabilities increases. Moreover, there is a trend towards customizable applications in order to let the user determine e.g. the content and the look and feel. Nevertheless, there exist only a few applications combining these features. In this paper, we propose Gamework, a framework for customizable mobile location-based games as a specialization for customizable mobile context-aware applications and services. According to their programming skills players are able to adapt a game with Gamework. This can be done by changing the context, adding user-generated content, modifying the game-flow or implementing new games from scratch by reusing existing modules of the framework or adding new ones. Therefore our framework features a reuse-oriented development methodology as well as a feedback loop analyzing all accruing user-generated content. The results of this analysis are used to automatically optimize the game with respect to frequent user-feedback. Finally, we will transfer the results back to the more general area of mobile and context-aware applications and services.
ER  -