Ольга Яненко | Geogames Team

Workshop on “Geogames and Geoplay” at the AGILE 2014

The Geogames team at the University of Bamberg was organizing a workshop on “Geogames and Geoplay” at this year’s AGILE conference in Castellón, Spain. After an introduction by Christoph Schlieder and the presentation of seven short papers the participants had the chance to play CityPoker, a mobile Geogame, as well as a Green Revolution desktop Geogame. A discussion about topics for a research agenda in this area was also part of the workshop.

For more information on the workshop visit the workshop website.

Here are some impressions:

Geogames at the ESRI EMEAUC 2013

The Geogames team of the University of Bamberg is present at the ESRI Europe, Middle East and Africa Education GIS Conference. The conference takes place on October 22nd and 23rd at the ICM Munich. An Unconference Session about Geogames organized by the team on Tuesday, Oktober 22nd.

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Geogames Team Won Best Short Paper Award at VS-Games 2013

The Geogames team at the University of Bamberg won the Best Short Paper Award with a submisson about “Spatial Choices in an Educational Geogame” at the VS-Games 2013 Conference.

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Geogames at the ESRI European Geodesign Summit 2013

Christoph Schlieder, head of the Geogames team, talks at the 2013 Geodesign Summit Europe. A Geogaming session is organized at the European Geodesign Summit 2013 held on September 19th and 20th in GeoFort, Herwijnen, Netherlands. The session will takes place on Thursday, September 19th in the Kadaster Room.

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Geogames at the ESRI User Conference 2013

Dominik Kremer, member of the Geogames team is going to participate in this year’s Education GIS Conference held July 8th to 12th in San Diego, CA. Besides a presentation with the title “Learning to Understand Geodesigns by Playing Geogames” there will be a demonstration of the Geogame CityPoker developed at the University of Bamberg several years ago.

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Geogames at the ESRI International Developer Summit 2013

Olga Yanenko, member of the Geogames team, is going to participate in this year’s DevSummit taking place March 25-28 at the Palm Springs Convention Center. One of the objectives of this visit will be to explore the possibilities of GIS and related technologies for the development of mobile location-based applications. Another aspect is focused on location-based services and gamification research in general as well as networking activities to strengthen the interconnection of researchers and developers in this special area.

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Geogames Talk at the USC Los Angeles

On Monday, March 11th 2013, Olga Yanenko, member of the Geogames team, is giving a presentation about Geogames at the University of Southern California Spatial Sciences Institute. This visit also involves a test run of the Neocartographer game with USC GeoDesign students.

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Olga Yanenko at the ESRI Applications Prototype Lab

Olga Yanenko, member of the Geogames team, is spending four weeks in the ESRI Applications Prototype Lab (APL) in Redlands, CA. This visit aims the exchange of knowledge between the Geogames team and the APL developers.

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Christoph Schlieder: Lightning talk at the Geodesign Summit 2013

Christoph Schlieder, the head of the Geogames team, talks at the 2013 Geodesign Summit. The players of a Geogame explore an outdoor environment and use GPS enabled smartphones to solve documentation tasks and access spatial information. These games are particularly interesting for educational projects on Geodesign because they not only connect the players socially but also connect them with the geographic environment.

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The Neocartographer Game

In Neocartographer, two players or teams of players compete, each trying to outperform the opponent in a mapping contest where a player gains an advantage by being the first to contribute a piece of information about a geographic location. The game belongs to the genre of configuration games, where players occupy spatial regions until they reach a winning configuration. In contrast to most of these games, Neocartographer challenges its players by requiring them to reason about spatial distances.