Attention Mogi Mogi Fans — New Social Formations Thru Location-Aware Mobile Experiences
From Nicolas Nova's Pasta and Vinegar is a post reporting on a recent paper by Christian Licoppe and Yoriko Inada, Learning in the Mobile Age Conference (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, April 28–30, 2005), titled “Seeing” one another onscreen and the construction of social order in a mobile-based augmented public space: The uses of a geo-localized mobile game in Japan.
The article is about how location awareness of others in mobile game Mogi Mogi is important to create affordances for social encounters.The ‘onscreen encounter’ in which the protagonists are able to perceive their respective icons on the screen map and to share that perception configures a form of encounter peculiar to context-aware cooperative devices like Mogi.