Collaborative Games on Mobile Phones
Simon Tan, Priyanka Reddy and Anuj Tewari
EECS Department
University of California, Berkeley
Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2009-89
June 1, 2009
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2009/EECS-2009-89.pdf
There are many efforts to utilize the mobile phone as a computing platform in developing regions of the world. One effective approach is to build educational games for children in these regions. Existing games in this space are typically single-player affairs, devoid of the possibly beneficial element of collaboration between multiple learners. We seek to explore the feasibility of creating multiplayer mobile phone games based on traditionally multiplayer real-life games played by children in these regions, in such a way as to encourage collaboration between players. We describe a game called Colour Colour that was built for this purpose and the results of initial deployments of this game to children in rural India and ESL students in California.
Advisor: John F. Canny
BibTeX citation:
@mastersthesis{Tan:EECS-2009-89,
Author = {Tan, Simon and Reddy, Priyanka and Tewari, Anuj},
Title = {Collaborative Games on Mobile Phones},
School = {EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley},
Year = {2009},
Month = {Jun},
URL = {http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2009/EECS-2009-89.html},
Number = {UCB/EECS-2009-89},
Abstract = {There are many efforts to utilize the mobile phone as a computing platform in developing regions of the world. One effective approach is to build educational games for children in these regions. Existing games in this space are typically single-player affairs, devoid of the possibly beneficial element of collaboration between multiple learners. We seek to explore the feasibility of creating multiplayer mobile phone games based on traditionally multiplayer real-life games played by children in these regions, in such a way as to encourage collaboration between players. We describe a game called Colour Colour that was built for this purpose and the results of initial deployments of this game to children in rural India and ESL students in California.}
}
EndNote citation:
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