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GEMS: a location-based game for supporting family storytelling

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CHI EA '13: CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2468356.2468550

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GEMS is a location-based game designed to support the telling and sharing of stories and to enhance knowledge of place among family members and close friends. The game narrative and mechanics prompt players to reflect on meaningful places from their past and to travel to those places and create geolocated digital memory records that capture the personal significance of the places in question. Other players can then visit the locations to collect and view the records.

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DOI:10.1145/2468356

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