Samuli Laato

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Understanding the Dynamics of Trust in Location-Based Games as Hybrid Spaces: The Players' Perspective

Location-based games (LBGs) merge digital play with physical environments, creating hybrid spaces that require players to navigate complex trust dynamics. Despite their global popularity, LBGs introduce unique challenges around fairness, safety, and privacy, spanning interactions among players, game systems, local com…

CSCW '254th AuthorPerspectives on VR

Towards Immersive Mixed Reality Street Play: Understanding Co-located Bodily Play with See-through Head-Mounted Displays in Public Spaces

We are witnessing an upcoming paradigm shift as Mixed Reality (MR) See-through Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) become ubiquitous, with use shifting from controlled, private settings to spontaneous, public ones. While location-based pervasive mobile games like Pokémon GO have achieved success, the embodied interaction of…

CHI '251st AuthorCrowdsourcing Task Design & Quality Control +2

User Motivations to Participate in Crowdsourcing and Contribute User-generated Content on Location-based Media: A Literature Review

Location-based media applications such as Google Maps, Strava and Pokémon GO together have more than a billion monthly active users, and popular social media such as Snapchat and Instagram now also feature map-based content. All these media products rely on user-generated content as a core element of their service, bu…

CHI '241st AuthorSocial Platform Design & User Behavior +1

Traumatizing or Just Annoying? Unveiling the Spectrum of Gamer Toxicity in the StarCraft II Community

The aim of this work is to explore the forms of toxic behaviour that players encounter in competitive multiplayer real-time strategy (RTS) games. To this end, we carried out ethnographic observations and player interviews within the popular RTS game StarCraft II, and approached the data inductively, leading us to disc…

CHI '245th+ AuthorSocial & Collaborative VR +2

Communication, Collaboration, and Coordination in a Co-located Shared Augmented Reality Game: Perspectives From Deaf and Hard of Hearing People

Co-located collaborative shared augmented reality (CS-AR) environments have gained considerable research attention, mainly focusing on design, implementation, accuracy, and usability. Yet, a gap persists in our understanding regarding the accessibility and inclusivity of such environments for diverse user groups, such…

CHI '242nd AuthorSerious & Functional Games +2

Exploring the association between engagement with location-based game features and getting inspired about environmental issues and nature

Today, millions worldwide play popular location-based games (LBGs) such as Pokémon GO. LBGs are designed to be played outdoors, and past research has shown that they can incentivize players to travel to nature. To further explore this nature-connection, we investigated via a mixed-methods approach the connections betw…

CHI '232nd AuthorSustainable HCI +1

Longing to be the Mountain: A Scoping Review about Human-Nature Interaction for Health Purposes

Engaging with nature enriches people’s life greatly, and it is a particularly powerful wellbeing activity. Unsurprisingly, researchers in HCI and beyond seek to augment and extend the relationship people have with nature through technology, to positively enhance their health as a result. In this paper, we report on a…

CHI '231st AuthorRole-Playing & Narrative Games +1

Resemblance of religion and pervasive games: A study among church employees and gamers

Previous research suggests that the experience and practices related to gaming and extended realities, and religion and spiritualism, share similarities. In this study, we explore how both the employees of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (n=156) and pervasive game players (n=98) perceive and make sense of these connec…

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