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March 2, 2021 In CFP, ReClaim, Transhumanism, Urban Play, Wearables By Mattia Thibault

WORKSHOP: Speculative Design for Transurban Futures (TransUrban)

CHItaly conference, Sunday, July 11, 2021. --- Facebook Event --- This workshop aims at expanding the existent research and perspectives on the future of urban spaces by making use of creative, emergent, and participative approaches. The concept of transurbanism [1] emerges from the realisation that the future...

December 11, 2020 In Gamification, Publication, ReClaim, Urban Play By Mattia Thibault

Digital Playful Tourism

Tourism has become one of the central cultural practices of our time. The year 2018 has set a new record of international tourist arrivals: 1,4 billion, according to the World Tourism Organization (UNTWO). The factors behind these all-time high numbers are many and range from...

July 11, 2020 In Gamification, Publication, Urban Play By Lobna Hassan

Gameful civic engagement: A review of the literature on gamification of e- participation

In recent years, we have seen an increased utilization of gamification to foster citizen engagement with the governance of their countries and communities. This, at its best, has beenan endeavor to progress the democraticness of governance or at least to progress its efficiency. However, there...

August 21, 2019 In ReClaim, Urban Play By Mattia Thibault

Critical Playable Cities

Cities are spaces permeated by constant tension and conflict, as inhabitants define and redefine them, while going about their daily living. Citizens, institutions, governments and businesses all compete for the possibility of writing the city, of modifying its forms and uses, of engraving themselves in...

August 6, 2019 In Augmented Reality, Gamification, Publication, Urban Play By Shuo Yang

Why do people play location-based augmented reality games: A study on Pokémon GO

Location-based augmented reality (AR) games are pervasive games that tie into the everyday life of the players and transform their mundane surroundings into a part of the game world [6]. After being published in July 2016, Pokémon GO (PGO) [8] became the first location-based AR...

January 8, 2019 In Gamification, Publication, ReClaim, Urban Play By Mattia Thibault

New paper: Towards a Typology of Urban Gamification

A new paper for ReClaim is out, published in the Proceedings of HICSS 2019: “Towards a Typology of Urban Gamification”. The paper is open access and you can find the article in the Publications section! Play has always had its place in the city. From simple games...

January 5, 2019 In ReClaim, Urban Play By Mattia Thibault

ReClaim on the news: interviewed by Interface

Interface, the magazine of Tampere University of Technology (which has now merged in Tampere University), dedicated an article to two Marie Curie Individual Fellows who have recently joined the University. One of them is Mattia Thibault, the PI of ReClaim. You can read the brief interview...

January 3, 2019 In Publication, ReClaim, Urban Play By Mattia Thibault

Re-interpreting Cities with Play: ReClaim’s first paper is out

The first paper from ReClaim, “Re-interpreting cities with play. Urban semiotics and gamification” has just been published! The paper expands the presentation held the 24 October 2018 at the Playable Cities Workshop during the ArtsIT Conference in Braga, Portugal and its contained in the refereed post-conference...

October 22, 2018 In Augmented Reality, Gamification, Publication, Urban Play By Shuo Yang

Uses and gratifications in Pokémon Go: Why do people play mobile location-based augmented reality games?

Image Source:https://www.criticsatlarge.ca/2016/08/fad-or-fantastic-niantics-pokemon-go.html Launched in the USA on 6 July 2016 (and currently available in over 130 countries), Pokémon Go is a free-to-play/freemium mobile game based on a Japanese transmedia franchise and built on a pre-existing mobile game platform by Niantic, Inc. During the first two months...