MOBILE ENTERTAINMENT: User-centred Perspectives

Edited by
Karenza Moore & Jason Rutter

ISBN: 1-84052-012-4
Price: £20

Copies of the collected proceedings from "Mobile Entertainment:User-centred Perspectives" are now available for purchase. Costing £20, copies can be ordered from Joyce.Wilson@manchester.ac.uk. An electronic version is also available for screen reading and can be downloaded without charge.

Introduction
Jason Rutter v

Part 1: Business, Markets & Regulation

Emerging and Future Mobile Entertainment Technologies: Drivers and Barriers in the Technology Evolution
Mika Ylianttila 3

Innovative Entertainment Services in the Portuguese Mobile Communications Sector – the Examples of MobiComp and YDreams
Nuno Correia & Manuel Mira Godinho 19

International Comparison of Mobile Entertainment
Sonja Kangas 32

Part 2: End Users and Consumption

Understanding Consumers’ Understanding of Mobile Entertainment
Karenza Moore & Jason Rutter 49

Consumer Perceptions Towards WAP Games
Eusebio Scornavacca & Clarry Shchiglik 66

Mobile Entertainment Users: Headline results from an online survey
Jo Bryce, Karenza Moore & Jason Rutter 86

The Effects of Constant Touch on Consumer Behaviour: The Case of Iranian Mobile Users
Ali Saeidi 100

Part 3: Location-based Games

On the Streets with Blast Theory and the MRL: ‘Can You See Me Now?’ and ‘Uncle Roy – All Around You’
Duncan Rowland, Martin Flintham, Steve Benford, Nick Tandavanitj, Adam Drozd & Rob Anastasi 115

‘Gangs of Bremen’: The First Prototype of a Mobile Game
Jochen Hahn & Katja Fahrenholz 125

On the Development of a Mobile Play Mechanic
Barbara Grüter & Anna Mielke 133

The Design History of a Geolocalized Mobile Game: From the Engineering of Displacements to the Engineering of Encounters - A case study of the development of a mobile game based on the geolocation of terminals
Christian Licoppe & Guillot Romain 149

Part 4: Innovative Services

Stay in Contact – ‘Landlordz’ Strategy Online Gaming for Mobile Platforms
Michael Coldewey, Helmut Eirund, Peer-Oliver Görke, Christian Hein, Marcus Knittel, Thorsten Wittwer & Hans Woitke 183

Mobile Phones and Football Fans: Technology, Services and Markets
James Orwell 195

Designing an Auditory W-LAN based Game
Rikke Hadrup, Pelle Svane Jakobsen, Mathilde Schytz Juul, Dan Lings & Ásta Olga Magnúsdóttir 207

C Space an adaptive, user led communication service exploiting the convergence of DVB-T and UMTS in portable devices
Leon Cruickshank 218

A Content Personalization Engine for Mobile Device Games
Danielle R. D. da Silva, Alexandre L. G. Damasceno, Börje F. F. Karlsson, & Geber L. Ramalho 231

The Future of Ubiquitous Gaming
Anxo Cereijo Roibas & Riccardo Sala 244

‘Be a Freeporter!’: Enabling a Mobile News Publishing Community
Tom Nicolai, Nils Behrens & Heidi Thielemann 254

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MOBILE ENTERTAINMENT: User-centred Perspectives

Edited by Karenza Moore & Jason Rutter

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Edited by
Karenza Moore & Jason Rutter