Sydewynder: rapid prototyping for mobile mixed-reality games
Pages 467 - 471
Abstract
Sydewynder is an open-source SMS receiver and sender application written in Python for the Nokia S60 phones. It can automate the responses of messages and can be used as a mobile application server in areas where setting up a traditional server may be difficult or illegal. It also is very useful for prototyping mobile applications, such as games, without the burden of expensive hosting. As such, it works very well in educational settings. It includes an emulator for developing scripts off of the phones as well as several example applications that students can modify to produce their own work.
Sydewynder was tested as an educational tool in the fall of 2007 during classes in the Communication Design and Techonology Department at Parsons The New School for Design. Students developed many different kinds of applications, including using Sydewynder for prototyping mixed-reality games. They found the software to be reasonably easy to use for people with little prior programming experience, as well as a fast tool for rapid prototyping.
References
[1]
M. Edwards. Sydewynder. Website, March 2007. http://onearmedman.com/projects/sydewynder.
[2]
A. Ferscha and S. Vogl. The webwall. In UbiComp 2002: Collaboration with Interactive Walls and Tables, 2002.
[3]
S. S. Fisher. An authoring toolkit for mixed reality experiences. In In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Entertainment Computing (IWEC2002): Special Session on Mixed Reality Entertainment, pages 487--494, 2002.
[4]
Free Software Foundation. The GNU General Public License - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF). Website, June 2007. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.
[5]
F. Liarokapis, R. Newman, S. Mount, D. Goldsmith, L. Macan, G. Malone, and J. Shuttleworth. Sense-enabled mixed reality museum exhibitions. In The 8th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, Coventry University, Cogent Computing Applied Research Centre, Department of Computer Science, Coventry, CV1 5FB, UK University of Wolverhampton, School of Computing and IT, Wolverhampton, WV1 1SB, UK, November 2007. The Eurographics Association.
[6]
L. Mannila, M. Peltomaki, and T. Salakoski. What about a simple language? Analyzing the difficulties in learning to program. Computer Science Education, 16(3):p211--227, August 2006.
[7]
J. McGonegal. Space Time Play: Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism: the Next Level, chapter Ubiquitous Gaming: A Vision for the Future of Enchanted Spaces, pages 233--237. Birkhäuser Basel, 1 edition, October 2007.
[8]
Nokia. Python for s60. Website, June 2008. http://wiki.opensource.nokia.com/projects/Python_for_S60.
[9]
P. Notzold. Ask tom. Website, April 2007. http://www.notzold.com/asktom.html.
[10]
A. Souza. Re-conceptualizing the mobile phone -- from telephone to collective interfaces. Australian Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society, 4(2):108--127, 2006.
Index Terms
- Sydewynder: rapid prototyping for mobile mixed-reality games
Recommendations
Using prototypes in early pervasive game development
Theoretical and Practical Computer Applications in EntertainmentIn this article we discuss various prototyping methods in early pervasive game development. The focus is on pervasive games that are played with mobile phones. Choosing the right prototyping method is crucial in achieving results that can be used for ...
EyeMR: low-cost eye-tracking for rapid-prototyping in head-mounted mixed reality
ETRA '18: Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & ApplicationsMixed Reality devices can either augment reality (AR) or create completely virtual realities (VR). Combined with head-mounted devices and eye-tracking, they enable users to interact with these systems in novel ways. However, current eye-tracking systems ...
State of Security for SMS on Mobile Devices
CERMA '08: Proceedings of the 2008 Electronics, Robotics and Automotive Mechanics ConferenceGiven the wide acceptance of SMS in mobile devices,it has been applied in unconventional applications beyond chating and exchanging short text messages. In this paper, we review a set of unconventional SMS-based applications. We review the basic ...
Comments
Please enable JavaScript to view thecomments powered by Disqus.Information & Contributors
Information
Published In
September 2008
551 pages
ISBN:9781605582481
DOI:10.1145/1413634
- Conference Chairs:
- Sofia Tsekeridou,
- Adrian David Cheok,
- Konstantinos Giannakis,
- John Karigiannis
Copyright © 2008 ACM.
Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]
Sponsors
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
New York, NY, United States
Publication History
Published: 10 September 2008
Check for updates
Author Tags
Qualifiers
- Research-article
Conference
DIMEA '08
Sponsor:
DIMEA '08: Third International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts
September 10 - 12, 2008
Athens, Greece
Acceptance Rates
DIMEA '08 Paper Acceptance Rate 59 of 77 submissions, 77%;
Overall Acceptance Rate 59 of 77 submissions, 77%
Contributors
Other Metrics
Bibliometrics & Citations
Bibliometrics
Article Metrics
- 0Total Citations
- 236Total Downloads
- Downloads (Last 12 months)2
- Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0
Reflects downloads up to 20 Jan 2025
Other Metrics
Citations
View Options
Login options
Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.
Sign in