What are we talking about when we talk about location-based games evaluation? a systematic mapping study

N Carneiro, T Darin, W Viana - … of the 18th Brazilian Symposium on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Once location-based games (LBGs) have peculiar characteristics (such as mobility and
pervasiveness), evaluating the quality of the user interaction with these games is not an …

Design principles for content creation in location-based games

P Fränti, N Fazal - ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Location-based games have been around since 2000 across various fields, including
education, health, and entertainment. The main challenge facing such games is content …

Solving the large-scale tsp problem in 1 h: Santa claus challenge 2020

R Mariescu-Istodor, P Fränti - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The scalability of traveling salesperson problem (TSP) algorithms for handling large-scale
problem instances has been an open problem for a long time. We arranged a so-called …

HikePal: A mobile exergame to motivate people with intellectual disabilities to do outdoor physical activities

JC Torrado, L Jaccheri, S Pelagatti, I Wold - Entertainment Computing, 2022 - Elsevier
People with intellectual disabilities often have a sedentary lifestyle that can lead to long-term
issues like cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, obesity and depression. Although literature …

Soundscape of an archaeological site recreated with audio augmented reality

M Sikora, M Russo, J Đerek, A Jurčević - ACM Transactions on …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
This article investigates the use of an audio augmented reality (AAR) system to recreate the
soundscape of a medieval archaeological site. The aim of our work was to explore whether it …

Which local search operator works best for the open-loop TSP?

L Sengupta, R Mariescu-Istodor, P Fränti - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
The traveling salesman problem (TSP) has been widely studied for the classical closed-loop
variant. However, very little attention has been paid to the open-loop variant. Most of the …

Social media data for content creation in location-based games

N Fazal, P Fränti - Journal of Location Based Services, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Content in location-based games (LBGs) fundamentally depends on the location, and its
global coverage is challenging. Typical content creation approaches involve crowdsourcing …

The impact of inquiry-based learning in a botanical garden on conceptual change in biology

V Vančugovienė, E Lehtinen… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The results of many past studies indicate that inquiry-based learning has a considerable
impact on the conceptual understanding of students. There are, however, a limited number …

Planning your route: where to start?

L Sengupta, R Mariescu-Istodor, P Fränti - Computational Brain & Behavior, 2018 - Springer
Tour planning is an important part of location-based applications. A tour planner provides an
optimized path through places of interests (targets) by minimizing the tour length or by …

Converting MST to TSP path by branch elimination

P Fränti, T Nenonen, M Yuan - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Travelling salesman problem (TSP) has been widely studied for the classical closed loop
variant but less attention has been paid to the open loop variant. Open loop solution has …