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In the spring of 2023, a team of European Project Semester (EPS) students enrolled at the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP) chose to foster socialisation in urban spaces. Public spaces are ideal sites to promote social interaction and community involvement. The aim of this project is then to use such places to divert attention from smartphones by promoting physical social interaction. In recent years, the combination of interactive games and technology has emerged as a potential strategy to increase the use and allure of public areas. The proposed solution, named Shift it, is a puzzle game that combines technology with old school gaming, providing a fun and unique socialising experience. The game, to be installed in public areas, has as key features inclusiveness (invites all people to play), fun (creates a healthy competitive setup) and empathy (creates puzzles by taking and scrambling user pictures). This paper presents the proposed design, which was based on state-of-the-art, ethics, market and sustainability analyses, followed by the development and testing of a proof-of-concept prototype.

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Promoting Fun and Social Interaction in Public Spaces – An EPS@ISEP 2023 Project

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  • 发表日期：

    2025年

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  • Alicja Faber,
  • Ângelo Torres,
  • Elena Boucher,
  • Felix Ljungkvist,
  • Lahore Hauspie,
  • Sander Spaas,
  • Abel J. Duarte,
  • Benedita Malheiro,
  • Cristina Ribeiro,
  • Jorge Justo,
  • Manuel F. Silva,
  • Paulo Ferreira,
  • Pedro Guedes

摘要

In the spring of 2023, a team of European Project Semester (EPS) students enrolled at the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP) chose to foster socialisation in urban spaces. Public spaces are ideal sites to promote social interaction and community involvement. The aim of this project is then to use such places to divert attention from smartphones by promoting physical social interaction. In recent years, the combination of interactive games and technology has emerged as a potential strategy to increase the use and allure of public areas. The proposed solution, named Shift it, is a puzzle game that combines technology with old school gaming, providing a fun and unique socialising experience. The game, to be installed in public areas, has as key features inclusiveness (invites all people to play), fun (creates a healthy competitive setup) and empathy (creates puzzles by taking and scrambling user pictures). This paper presents the proposed design, which was based on state-of-the-art, ethics, market and sustainability analyses, followed by the development and testing of a proof-of-concept prototype.