Since a few years we have been seeing a blossoming of typologies of mobile devices which allow the use of an infinite variety of mobile applications (Apps) for any kind of purpose. Some apps provide an augmented reality, a view of reality that is modified by technology, enhancing the perception of reality, allowing additional knowledge or interaction between real and virtual. Among these, Location Based Games are games designed to be played on a device in motion and in strict connection to the location. LBGs are suited to convey knowledge and to encourage physical activity, in which players get a closer connection between virtual and real environments and stronger emotions than by video games. LBGs can be played in a city or in nature being connected to the real world through GPS and internet. In this paper we describe the LBG developed as tourist means along the main stops of the cast-iron route in the town of Follonica, which was famous, during the Lorrain's grand duchy, for the transformation of the iron mineral extracted from the Elba Island mines into cast iron for ornamental purposes. Nowadays the town holds symbols and monuments connected to that time, as witnesses of the ancient industrial exploitation of the geological resources of the area.
LOCATION BASED GAME TO DISCOVER FOLLONICA - "THE TOWN OF THE CAST IRON"
F Ugolini;
2016
Abstract
Since a few years we have been seeing a blossoming of typologies of mobile devices which allow the use of an infinite variety of mobile applications (Apps) for any kind of purpose. Some apps provide an augmented reality, a view of reality that is modified by technology, enhancing the perception of reality, allowing additional knowledge or interaction between real and virtual. Among these, Location Based Games are games designed to be played on a device in motion and in strict connection to the location. LBGs are suited to convey knowledge and to encourage physical activity, in which players get a closer connection between virtual and real environments and stronger emotions than by video games. LBGs can be played in a city or in nature being connected to the real world through GPS and internet. In this paper we describe the LBG developed as tourist means along the main stops of the cast-iron route in the town of Follonica, which was famous, during the Lorrain's grand duchy, for the transformation of the iron mineral extracted from the Elba Island mines into cast iron for ornamental purposes. Nowadays the town holds symbols and monuments connected to that time, as witnesses of the ancient industrial exploitation of the geological resources of the area.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
