SHAPE Scavenger Hunt and Puzzle Environment Interfaces for Connecting People and Information in Publ

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SHAPE Scavenger Hunt and Puzzle Environment
Interfaces for Connecting People and Information
in Public Spaces
May 8th, 2007
Daniel Abeshouse Yue Zhao Ajay Prasad
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Overview

• Introduction
• Building the Virtual World
• High Fidelity Mockups
• Conceptual Model using UML
• Demo

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Introduction

• SHAPE is a system to allow users to create and
  play location based scavenger hunts on
  cooperatively developed maps that reflects the
  real world.
• Three components
• Explore and play games (Our focus)
• Create games
• Create maps

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Introduction

• The games themselves may require a physical
  presence in the vicinity of the virtual game to
  actually participate.
• At this location they may find larger physical
  screens to see overall views and scoreboards and
  will be able to interact in person with the folks
  they will play with, and against, in the game.

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Introduction

• The hunt may consist of a series of puzzles that
  users must solve to determine the next clue,
  thereby driving them along a specific sequence of
  locations and logic.
• It may also be less guided. Containing clues, and
  side prizes placed throughout the area, so that
  each time a player plays the game is new and
  different.

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Introduction

• Users create clues and puzzle steps and string
  them together to make compelling and playable
  games. They also set the parameters of the game.

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Virtual World
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Virtual World
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High Fidelity Screen Mockups
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Conceptual Model - UML
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Demo
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Demo
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Demo
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Demo
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Demo
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Demo
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Demo
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Questions?