Building Your Own Tangible Virtual World: A Design of an RFID-Based Tabletop Game Platform

Author

Tan, Jingyu ; Rau, P. L Patrick

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2010

fDate

12-16 April 2010

Firstpage

151

Lastpage

155

Abstract

Augmented tabletop game is one genre of pervasive games which attempt to combine the advantages of both traditional game and computer game and to remedy their disadvantages by using the context-aware computing technology. In this paper, the design of an augmented tabletop game platform is introduced in detail. This platform uses an RFID reader matrix to satisfy the requirements of flexibility and programmability of developing augmented tabletop games. Based on this platform, augmented tabletop games can be developed by using the imagination and creativity of players. This platform is also designed for educational purposes.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; computer games; educational technology; microcomputers; radiofrequency identification; virtual reality; RFID reader matrix; RFID-based tabletop game platform; augmented tabletop game; computer game; context-aware computing technology; educational purposes; pervasive games; tangible virtual world; Buildings; Context-aware services; Humans; Industrial engineering; Intelligent structures; Pervasive computing; Physics computing; Prototypes; Radiofrequency identification; Toy industry; Augmented Tabletop Game; Pervasive Game; RFID;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning (DIGITEL), 2010 Third IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kaohsiung

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6433-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6434-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DIGITEL.2010.53

Filename

5463755