Making friends by killing them: using location-based urban gaming to expand personal networks

Authors:
Josh Coe;Monchu Chen
Affiliations:
Carnegie Mellon Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Funchal, Portugal
Venue:
CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Cultural problems exist with current online systems for meeting new people, such as dating sites, which encourage unnatural meetings with strangers. An SMS-based murder mystery game was designed to facilitate the natural progression of growing one's personal network by meeting friends of friends. Considerations on how a location-based mobile system could further facilitate personal network expansion are discussed.