| Frog Race and Hot Potato
Frog Race is a master thesis project carried out at SICS by Jenny Niemi and Susanna Sawano. It is also a part of the IPerG project. In our research we aim to understand how pervasive games (games that are located in the real world), can become more fun by using real people as non-player characters (NPC) in the game.
The first part of our thesis is concerned with the ethical questions that arise. Is it OK to use unknowing participants as part of a game? Are there any ways to make it acceptable for the non-players? We made a pre-study to know which types of people were potentially going to be used as NPC and which age-group our players were going to belong to. After that we conducted our big user-study on the potential players and NPC.
The second part is a game demo implemented for the Sony Ericsson P900 phone. The game, “Hot Potato”, uses Bluetooth to locate NPCs in the proximity and animates them on screen.
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06-06-29 The thesis is now completed and can be downloaded here!
05-09-20 A Press section has been added due to an article mentioning our work in Göteborgs-Posten.
05-08-26 The Aarhus conference paper on non-players can be downloaded in the Papers section.
05-07-28 Two additions to the Papers section.
05-07-13 A flash movie of the game can be viewed in the Screen Shots section.
05-06-17 The webpage is finally under construction!
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