Today it is clear that the most widely used device in the world is the mobile phone. Phones are mostly voice-centric devices, but a wide range of mobile devices now exist on the market offering multiple services and functions. The term smartphone is now used to characterize a mobile phone with special computer-enabled features. Despite the mobile phone evolution, one of the main disadvantages of these devices is that they still have insufficient input capabilities, providing tiny keyboards to do manual entries. Fortunately most smartphones are now equipped with several sensors that can be used to enhance and create new users interfaces. This is the case for integrated cameras that can be used to read visual codes, like Quick Response (QR) Code as well as other sensing technologies such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and the associated Near Field Communications (NFC). The use of these technologies does not only facilitate entering information, but it also allows using mobile phones for interactions with people, places and things, enhancing the usability and usefulness of these devices. The use of QR Codes and RFID tags has significantly evolve in the last decades, they were first used to track products in the industry, but now they have contributed to develop several new concepts that integrate the physical world with the virtual one.

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Using RFID/NFC and QR-Code in Mobile Phones to Link the Physical and the Digital World

Physiological sensing has been a prominent fixture in games user research (GUR) since the late 1990s, when researchers started to explore its potential to enhance and understand experience within digital game play. Since these early days, is has been widely argued that "affective gaming"---in which gameplay is influenced by a player's emotional state---can enhance player experience by integrating physiological sensors into play. Reflecting in 2020 on these last 20 years of progress, we systematically review the field of affective gaming to answer whether or not it has met this promise. We create a framework (the affective game loop) to classify 162 publications (included from an initial search set of 52,834 results) within affective gaming, present findings on the current state of the field, and discuss how our findings, contextualized within the affective game loop, can guide the future of affective gaming.

"Let's Get Physiological, Physiological!": A Systematic Review of Affective Gaming

Embodiments that relate to presenting a textured shared world model of a physical environment are disclosed. One embodiment includes receiving geo-located crowd-sourced structural data items of the physical environment. The structural data items are stitched together to generate a 3D spatial shared world model. Geo-located crowd-sourced texture data items are also received and include time-stamped images or video. User input of a temporal filter parameter is used to temporally filter the texture data items. The temporally-filtered texture data items are applied to surfaces of the 3D spatial shared world model to generate a textured shared world model of the physical environment. The textured shared world model is then provided for display by a display device.

Mixed reality experience sharing

The adoption of NFC technology has taken longer than expected after its inception in 2004. Several projects on ticketing and payment are gaining momentum. However, the actual state of adoption of NFC is still unclear. As an alternative to consultantsâ€™ prediction (which mostly prove wrong), this paper describes a gamification-based approach to motivate users themselves to report on NFC tags they spotted in their environment. As part of a trading card context, users get rewarded with gadgets and points for documenting the existence of NFC technology in their environment. This paper describes the development of this game and the experiences of two release cycles. The paper concludes with lessons learned and provides an outlook on next steps.

Research in the Large: Challenges for Large-Scale Mobile Application Research- A Case Study about NFC Adoption using Gamification via an App Store

A digital pervasive game can be defined as a game in which the gaming experience is extended to the real world. This is possible due to the use of sensor-based mobile devices. Developing digital pervasive games involves additional requirements, such as dealing with ubiquitous computing challenges. Part of these requirements affect directly the design and development processes of pervasive games. Software Engineering techniques should be adapted to increase the overall quality of game software. The main objective of this paper is to present a systematic review of this area in order to capture the state of the art research in Software Engineering for Pervasive Games. A standard systematic review methodology using digital databases for research was applied and 100 relevant studies were found within 1304 obtained from searches. We were able to identify the main topics of pervasive games research area in the last five years, the most relevant research methodologies, topics and challenges in terms of numbers for pervasive games research field.

A Systematic Review on Software Engineering in Pervasive Games Development

We describe an ubiquitous computing architecture through a multi-player game application based on the objective of collecting audio clips and depositing them in a staging area. Central to the game are the themes of highly coupled interaction and communication between players with different roles and an engaging blend of interaction with both the physical and virtual worlds. To this end, numerous technologies including locative sensing, miniature computing, and portable displays had to be integrated with a game middleware and audio scene rendering engine. The result provides a compelling example of future distributed systems that this paper describes.

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SoundPark : Exploring Ubiquitous Computing through a Mixed Reality Multi-player Game Experiment.

GASP is an open source platform that conforms the
Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) v 1.0 specifications. It
is able to handle basic services for building and
handling interactions between players such as session
management, communications... GASP is
implemented in Java. It offers a server and a client
part. It is defined for MIDP and DOJA J2ME profiles.
GASP is demonstrated through Kouiz, a multiplayer
game for mobiles presented in the second part of this
paper. During solo phases of the game, the player
tries to breed animals called kouizs. The aim is to
improve their skills. With improved skills, kouizs
have better chances to win against challengers in the
multiplayer arena. In this mode kouizs can fight. This
paper ends by discussing our current results and what
we plan to do next with the gaming service platform
GASP.

GASP: an open source gaming service middleware dedicated to multiplayer games for J2ME based mobile phones

This paper describes MooDS, an object-oriented communication protocol dedicated to Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) based mobile phones. This protocol is used in GASP, an open source middleware enabling J2ME multiplayer gaming interactions. This paper enlightens the difficulty in developing mutiplayer games in heavily constrained environments, like the J2ME CLDC platform: small application memory footprint, lack of object serialization support, network protocol limitations, small bandwith and lack of client IP addressing support within cellular phone networks. This paper details how MooDS takes care of these constraints by providing an efficient object serialization protocol in order to reduce the amount of transmitted data and to increase the communication speed. Moreover, MooDS is compared with the available J2ME SOAP based protocol implementations, kSOAP2 and JSR172. This paper shows that MooDS obtains the best results in terms of encoding length, transmission delay, memory allocation and application code size, thus supplying a proper gaming interaction support, in particular for time critical multiplayer games.

https://cedric.cnam.fr/fichiers/RC1286.pdf

The MooDS protocol: a J2ME object-oriented communication protocol

This paper describes an ongoing work. We are designing and implementing a library of services dedicated to multiplayer on-line games for mobile phones. This library, called GASP, conforms to Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) v2.0 specifications. It is implemented in Java and offers a server and a client part. The latter is defined for MIDP 2.0 and DOJA 1.5 J2ME profiles. GASP v1.O implements partially OMA specification: We are working on a new version more complete.

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GASP: un intergiciel pour les jeux en réseaux multijoueurs sur téléphones mobiles

One of the goals of mixed reality and ubiquitous computing technologies is to provide an adaptable and personal content at any moment, anywhere, and in any context. In Multiplayer Ubiquitous Games (MUGs), players have to interact in the real world at both physical and virtual levels. Player profiles in MUGs offer an opportunity to provide personalized services to gamers. This paper presents a way to manage MUG player profiles on an NFC Smart Card, and proposes a Java API to integrate Smart Cards in the development of MUGs. This user centric approach brings new forms of gameplay, allowing the player to interact with the game or with other players any time and anywhere. Smart Cards should also help improve the security, ubiquity, and the user mobility in traditional MUGs.

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Player profile management on NFC smart card for multiplayer ubiquitous games

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