pervasive gaming

"– Du kan ändra folks beteende genom att stoppa in något som är lite lekfullt och ett roligt inslag i vardagen, säger Annika Waern, som forskar om spel i verkligheten på...

The IPerG book “Pervasive Games: Theory and Design - Experiences on the Boundary between Life and Play ” by Markus Montola, Jaakko Stenros and Annika Waern (editors) is finally available for preorders at most online stores, published by Morgan Kauffman.

Kersti asked me yesterday if I had any good photo of a typical pervasive game? Don't know if we have the perfect pervasive games photo yet so instead I sent Kersti a bunch of links for all the photos we have(see below)....

A spin-off from our IPerG project won an Emmy yesterday. Sanningen om Marika(The Truth about Marika) is a Swedish interactive TV show and I participated in the first brainstorm meeting about what it should become!...

Got a tip from a friend to look for geocaches in Baghdad and there were surprisingly many. Though the majority are around the airfield. Some spectacular comments on some:...

The first public release of Public release of Pervasive Interactive Mobile Platform (PIMP) is now available the PIMP website.

PIMP is a Java library that can be used to build distributed applications....

Mobile Learning Environment (MLE) is a Nordic project that continues the research of pervasive games that started in IPerG project....

One of the main goals with Playground is to achieve a technical infrastructure for creating interactive physical environments. The EERIE activity within Playground will create one such environment for...

Pervasive games are location-based computer games that are always present and surround the user. With a number of existing commercial games, It's Alive Mobile Games AB is a strong player within this new ...

Mattias Svahn is currently senior coordinator for the IPerG project.

He is also a Ph.D. candidate at The Stockholm school of Economics, Center for Media - and Economic Psychology where he researches advergaming, in-game advertising, and game design for persuasive purposes, particularly for pervasive games, and mobile media.