Simon Tan and Priyanka Reddy and Anuj Tewari

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2009-89

June 1, 2009

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2009/EECS-2009-89.pdf

There are many efforts to utilize the mobile phone as a computing platform in developing regions of the world. One effective approach is to build educational games for children in these regions. Existing games in this space are typically single-player affairs, devoid of the possibly beneficial element of collaboration between multiple learners. We seek to explore the feasibility of creating multiplayer mobile phone games based on traditionally multiplayer real-life games played by children in these regions, in such a way as to encourage collaboration between players. We describe a game called Colour Colour that was built for this purpose and the results of initial deployments of this game to children in rural India and ESL students in California.

Advisors: John F. Canny

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BibTeX citation:

@mastersthesis{Tan:EECS-2009-89,
    Author= {Tan, Simon and Reddy, Priyanka and Tewari, Anuj},
    Title= {Collaborative Games on Mobile Phones},
    School= {EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley},
    Year= {2009},
    Month= {Jun},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2009/EECS-2009-89.html},
    Number= {UCB/EECS-2009-89},
    Abstract= {There are many efforts to utilize the mobile phone as a computing platform in developing regions of the world. One effective approach is to build educational games for children in these regions. Existing games in this space are typically single-player affairs, devoid of the possibly beneficial element of collaboration between multiple learners. We seek to explore the feasibility of creating multiplayer mobile phone games based on traditionally multiplayer real-life games played by children in these regions, in such a way as to encourage collaboration between players. We describe a game called Colour Colour that was built for this purpose and the results of initial deployments of this game to children in rural India and ESL students in California.},
}

EndNote citation:

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%A Reddy, Priyanka 
%A Tewari, Anuj 
%T Collaborative Games on Mobile Phones
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 2009
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