A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
Designing Reality Guides
Authors: Tomi Mäntylä, Ilmari Lahti, Harri Ketamo, Mika Luimula, Jouni Smed
Editors: Camilleri V, Dingli A, Montebello M
Conference name: International conference on games and virtual worlds for serious applications
Publisher: IEEE
Publication year: 2014
Book title : 2014 6th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-Games)
First page : 69
Last page: 76
Number of pages: 8
ISBN: 978-1-4799-4056-1
Reality guides aim at assisting, teaching or supporting the user in the real world. Among other things they are used to illustrate history, to educate students or to provide services to visitors. In this paper, we introduce three concept applications for reality guides related to history, entertainment and education. We reflect their design to theoretical frameworks on gameness and narrativity. We also present practical considerations related to the quality of content that affect the implementation of reality guide applications.