https://hci.ece.upatras.gr/l-bags/ 2026-05-18T18:53:01+03:00 https://hci.ece.upatras.gr/l-bags/ https://hci.ece.upatras.gr/l-bags/lib/tpl/lotar-bootstrap3/images/favicon.ico text/html 2021-05-30T11:44:28+03:00 https://hci.ece.upatras.gr/l-bags/doku.php?id=en:games:bms&rev=1622364268&do=diff Benaki MuseumScrabble (BMS) Benaki MuseumScrabble is a location-based mobile game, built for the Benaki Museum in Athens. The game aims to engage visitors (mainly student groups) in a process of discovering relationships between museum exhibits and objects that are not exposed. The game is played between players or group of players, competing with each other. Each player or team has a mobile device that can read QR tags and can follow the progress of the game. text/html 2021-05-30T11:44:28+03:00 https://hci.ece.upatras.gr/l-bags/doku.php?id=en:games:cityscrabble&rev=1622364268&do=diff CityScrabble CityScrabble is a location-based game for open areas. It is played using android devices in places for which content has been prepared. The game can be played in any open space. Examples are city centers, archaeological parks or other sites of some importance. It can also be played in closed spaces such as museums or any other relative large space. text/html 2021-05-30T11:44:28+03:00 https://hci.ece.upatras.gr/l-bags/doku.php?id=en:games:museumquest&rev=1622364268&do=diff MuseumQuest In MuseumQuest the basic quest mechanics of role-playing videogames where adapted for a fictional museum. It was implemented on the same platform as MuseumScrabble (PocketPC devices with RFID scanners). It was implemented as a prototype for a single-player game. The player visits an exhibit, scans its RFID tag and gets a mission. A mission can be to locate another exhibit, transport an object, combine objects, solve puzzles. text/html 2021-05-30T11:44:28+03:00 https://hci.ece.upatras.gr/l-bags/doku.php?id=en:games:museumscrabble&rev=1622364268&do=diff MuseumScrabble MuseumScrabble is a location-based multiplayer mobile game for museums. It is played by competing teams of players using mobile devices with RFID scanners to scan exhibits and link them to topics. The game ends when all available links have been established. The team with most points (e.g. meaningful links between exhibits and topics text/html 2021-05-30T11:44:28+03:00 https://hci.ece.upatras.gr/l-bags/doku.php?id=en:games:rebels_vs._spies&rev=1622364268&do=diff Invisible city: Rebels vs. Spies Invisible city: Rebels vs. Spies is a location-based mobile game. It is to be played in a city by a party of 5-15 players. The aim is to visit locations in a city by playing a group game that engages you to interact with buildings, monuments, streets etc. The game has been designed and implemented by the text/html 2021-05-30T11:44:28+03:00 https://hci.ece.upatras.gr/l-bags/doku.php?id=en:games:start&rev=1622364268&do=diff Games A number of location-based mobile games have been developed by members of the HCI Group. * MuseumScrabble * MuseumQuest * Invisible Cities: Rebels Vs. Spies * Benaki MuseumScrabble * CityScrabble * InvadersZone * CarnivalScrabble * Taggling text/html 2021-05-30T11:44:28+03:00 https://hci.ece.upatras.gr/l-bags/doku.php?id=en:games:taggling&rev=1622364268&do=diff Taggling Tagging of an artwork can be part of a non-formal description of the artwork. In Taggling this idea is used to create tags (e.g. labels that say something about an exhibit) for each participating exhibit, then scatter these tags randomly and finally ask the player to use his/her cognitive skills to assemble the right set of tags of each exhibit.