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City Explorer: Gamifying Public Transit Trips While Exploring the City

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Stephanie Wong,

Carman Neustaedter,

Yuyao WuAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 2825 - 2832

https://doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3053252

Published: 06 May 2017 Publication History

Abstract

Many people use public transit on a recurring basis to travel for work, school, or other activities. Yet rides can be isolating despite encountering the same people on a regular basis. We designed City Explorer, a city exploration transit game, to provide transit riders with a channel to strengthen the sense of community. In City Explorer, players collect points as they ride public transit. They can complete route-specific challenges and collaborate with other riders to multiply points by riding the same route. Players can also create geo-tagged posts to describe and share community-related information. We share our design requirements, followed by details of game features, and our implementation of City Explorer.

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CHI EA '17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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DOI:10.1145/3027063

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Pasca MDi Pietro LGuglielmetti Mugion R(2023)Is Gamification an Enabler of the Sustainable Urban Transition Process?Sustainable Urban Transitions10.1007/978-981-99-2695-4_12(201-217)Online publication date: 19-Jul-2023
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Kazhamiakin RLoria EMarconi AScanagatta M(2021)A Gamification Platform to Analyze and Influence Citizens’ Daily Transportation ChoicesIEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems10.1109/TITS.2021.304979222:4(2153-2167)Online publication date: Apr-2021
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