eprintid: 37192
rev_number: 9
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datestamp: 2025-08-19 13:03:16
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creators_name: Lorei, Heinrich
creators_name: Höfle, Bernhard
creators_name: Westerholt, René
title: Spatial Structure as an Element of Motivation in Location-Based Games
subjects: ddc-550
divisions: i-120700
abstract: Location-based games have emerged with the ubiquitous deployment of GPS-enabled devices. These games allow players to blend over the digital sphere with real-world whereabouts, implying that design choices made may affect the way players approach non-digital geographical spaces. This paper addresses scoring systems used to reward players for solving in-game tasks. We investigate how spatially structured scoring systems influence playing behaviours. The game we focus on is StreetComplete, an app that allows to collect and complement the OpenStreetMap database. We investigate indicators like walking speed, distance walked, and the game duration. Our results identify interesting effects spatial structure has on the game duration as well as the extent to which players are willing to explore an area geographically, hinting on interesting motivational elements of location-based games.
date: 2020
publisher: Geschäftsstelle der DGPF
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00037192
official_url: https://doi.org/10.24407/KXP:1694478424
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-371922
language: eng
bibsort: LOREIHEINRSPATIALSTR2020
full_text_status: public
series: Publikationen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Photogrammetrie, Fernerkundung und Geoinformation e.V.
volume: 29
place_of_pub: München
pagerange: 290-298
book_title: 40. Wissenschaftlich-Technische Jahrestagung der DGPF, 4.-6. März 2020 in Stuttgart : Beiträge
editors_name: Kersten, Thomas P.
citation:   Lorei, Heinrich ; Höfle, Bernhard ; Westerholt, René  (2020) Spatial Structure as an Element of Motivation in Location-Based Games.  [Book Section]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/37192/1/37_dgpf2020_lorei_et_al.pdf