Story Mashup
Jürgen Scheible, Ville H. Tuulos, Timo Ojala · 2007
This paper studies the design rationale and evaluation of an urban storytelling game called Story Mashup. In the game ubiquitous computing infrastructure is utilized to facilitate real-time interaction between mobile and web users. Textual stories written in the web by certain people are illustrated by other people taking matching photos with camera phones. Complete stories are then displayed on a large public display and on the web. To carry out a thorough empirical evaluation of the game design in a real world setting, the game was played in New York in September 2006 with 180 players and by people in the internet around the world. The results show that the adopted iterative design process succeeded in achieving the goals set for usability, user experience and game stimulation.