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Building Context-Aware Gamified Apps by Using Ontologies as Unified Representation and Reasoning-Based Models

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Mobile serious games (MSGs) or gamified apps are kind of user-centered applications where fun and serious aspects are combined in order to enhance users’ experiences. Typically, apps are developed to target a specific purpose for also a specific audience. However, in real settings, a given app could have different users with different characteristics, preferences, contexts, and goals related to gamification. Besides, context awareness is the capacity of a system to take into account the user’s context and adapt its behavior accordingly to that context. This chapter proposes a generic framework that helps developers to build context-aware MSG or gamified apps. This framework relies on a unified representation of gamification expertise and context by making use of ontologies and micro-services. As a proof of concept, the framework is used to design a context-aware gamified app prototype for promoting campus facilities.

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  1. PRINCE, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia

    Maha Khemaja

  2. Universitat Politècnica of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Félix Buendia

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Khemaja, M., Buendia, F. (2017). Building Context-Aware Gamified Apps by Using Ontologies as Unified Representation and Reasoning-Based Models. In: Ma, M., Oikonomou, A. (eds) Serious Games and Edutainment Applications . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51645-5_29

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