Evaluating NFC and touchscreen interactions in collaborative mobile pervasive games

Authors:
Michael Wolbert;Abdallah El Ali
Affiliations:
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands;University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Venue:
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services
Year:
2013

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Abstract

This paper presents the motivation, design, and pilot evaluation of CountMeIn, a pervasive collaborative game to improve the waiting time experience (e.g., waiting for a train, or traffic light to turn green). We tested two versions of CountMeIn, an NFC-based and touchscreen version in a small pilot study. Our early results showed that the NFC-based version increases collaboration, and was overall more positively perceived than the touchscreen version. We discuss the challenges ahead in deploying CountMeIn in a real-world setting.