Networked Mobilities Lab

es, pervasive games, mobile games, and augmented reality games. The strong success of video and computer games during the last 20 years can make many forget that the physical environment has always been the primary playful space. However, if computers helped take games to digital spaces, the popularity of mobile technologies has taken games back to the physical. The pervasiveness of mobile phones, which allows people to walk around urban spaces connected to both the Internet and each other, encourages the creation of a new type of game arena that takes place simultaneously in physical and digital spaces. In these games, communication, collaboration, and interaction occur in hybrid spaces through a combination of the physical and the virtual.