NFC Heroes -- Observing NFC Adoption through a Mobile Trading Card Game

Near-field Communication (NFC) technology finally starts to proliferate on modern smartphones, enabling researchers to conduct research in the real world. The research question for this work is to learn about the distribution of NFC tags in the wild. As there is, for good and for bad, no central registry or database of NFC tags, we propose a game-based approach to capture the adoption of NFC solutions and technologies. We first report on the development process an NFC-based game. We then present the game logic and implementation, share our experiences from two release cycles on Googles Play Store and finally report on initial results and lessons learned during the whole process.     «

Near-field Communication (NFC) technology finally starts to proliferate on modern smartphones, enabling researchers to conduct research in the real world. The research question for this work is to learn about the distribution of NFC tags in the wild. As there is, for good and for bad, no central registry or database of NFC tags, we propose a game-based approach to capture the adoption of NFC solutions and technologies. We first report on the development process an NFC-based game. We then present...     »