Global Gincana @ Mobilefest '09

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Global Gincana @ Mobilefest ‘09 by Ronald Lenz

Ronald Lenz Research head Locative Media @ Waag Society Creative Director @ 7scenes Strategist, technologist and researcher in location-based mobile services and experiences

Waag Society Amsterdam based Medialab Creative technology for social innovation Education, Healthcare, Arts&Culture, Sustainability & Public Domain

Places - more than geography They have histories, invoke behavior, are personal, physical & virtual

Mobile technology trends Ever growing adoption of phones Multi-functional devices Always connected & context-aware Mobile web is the new internet Strong distribution platforms for applications

Learning trends Active participation and collaboration Everyday life scenarios Teacher as inspiration, coach and expert Situation and experience based learning Reﬂection: process, material and behavior Donation: share, present to and create for

Creative Learning Lab & Locative Atelier Creating new learning experiences on location

The City is a Learning environment! We have a new design challenge and need new tools!

A new platform

7scenes Mobile and online platform for creating, publishing, playing and sharing GPS games and tours

Create & Publish All web-based, easy drag&drop interface Select & conﬁgure templates such as role-playing, trading, treasure hunt & interactive story Add tasks, photos, videos, sounds, notes & rewards to locations on a map Publish for events or to everyone

Play Navigate places live on a map Location-based interaction: view media/content, perform tasks, upload photos and notes, pick up rewards Multi-user gameplay: confrontations & trading, message with players Collaborate with web-player

Share Set up scene pages for your project’s communication All interaction can be broadcast live All player interaction is archived for playback later Share your project with widgets

Project Designed for use by organisations such as schools & universities, museums, tourist boards, event organisers, publishers and more Use for any kind of purpose and content Full administration control to manage content, editors and users

Some examples

Frequency 1550 An educational mobile game blending mediaeval history out in the Amsterdam streets Navigating a historic map, meeting historic characters Multi-player competition with web-based players Proven educational value

Mobile Learning Game Kit Full toolkit to create mobile ‘lessons’ with First in its kind collaboration UvA and Medialab Amsterdam Mobile Learning Game Kit A full set of production tools

Games Atelier Learn by creating and playing mobile games Full educational program Available in all Dutch schools To be used for any curriculum

Re-architect Photographic treasure hunt exploring Hong Kong’s architecture Think like an architect for a day Collaboration HK Design Institute and Polytechnic University

Fort Amsterdam Role playing game about Dutch roots of NYC Strong theatrics and physical gameplay Lasting experience

The Island Urban game on shared trading history of Amsterdam and NYC Connecting the two cities in real-time! Players trade like merchants did 400 years ago Respond to the changing market values determined by historic facts

Urban gaming principles Urban environment as inspiration, context and trigger: historical, social, cultural, personal perspective Storyline: meta narratives vs micro narrative and blackbox structures Gameplay: games rules, social interaction, collaboration Problem solving: just in time & on-demand info, skills as strategies, real world situations Theatrics: dark players, actors and props, create settings

Global Gincana

A logical collaboration Exploring new uses of mobile technology in society Seeing the city as a playground Big city opportunities and challenges Global Gincana An international collaboration

Global Gincana Connecting young people in two multi-ethnic cities: SP and A’dam Exploring culture exchange using next-generation mobile tools Researching a new educational format

Global Gincana Combining traditional Gincana with mobile gaming: Mobile Gincana Creating cultural games for students in another city Playing cultural games made by students from another city

A Mobile Gincana game Take a cultural theme: food, language, arts&culture, music& dance, ... Pick your favorite national, personal and local examples Find and create expressive media to illustrate them Add a Gincana activity: object search, social interaction, cultural match or artistic expression Map these as 7scenes tasks to city locations in the other city Give your game as a cultural present to students in the other city

Results phase 1 pilot, workshop and presentations

Pilots Avenida Paulista: language, architecture and art & design Villa Madalena: Street Art / Gra!ti

Workshop students and teachers working in teams creating Mobile Gincana games Great creativity and local traditions & scenarios used

Campus Party conference Sao Paulo Presentations of results great feedback

Results phase 2 ﬁrst results are in...

Picnic Young New technology in education festival Part of Picnic festival - largest crossmedia festival of Europe Connected pilot - Play Mobile Gincana games Live video stream connecting SP & A’dam

What’s next for Global Gincana? Facilitate more exchanges between students Research learning e"ects and explore embedding in schoolsystem Connect more cities & countries Strengthen relationship with Mobilefest

Partnership 7scenes Mobilefest O!cial Brazilian reseller and project partner Paulo Hartmann Marcelo Godoy

The very near future Major design updates iPhone app Mobile browser app Open API Portuguese translations

What could 7scenes be to a university? A design toolkit for mobile location-based projects A new way to publish educational content A development platform for IT students A way to promote learning outside building walls and schooltimes Multi purpose: interactive media, game design, information technology, theatre, social studies, geography, biology ﬁeldwork, architecture, photography and more.

So how about the future? We have only just started with location-based mobile apps Augmented Reality - just a hype? A new mass medium & design paradigm Social Play will make the di"erence The City will have an API and it will be realtime Exploring Cities, but also connecting Cities

Thanks! Any Questions? ronald@waag.org linkedin.com/in/ronaldlenz twitter.com/rlenz slideshare.net/rlenz