Beaconing and PlayVisit for Smart Cities, Tourism, Heritage and Culture
Posted by Pau Yanez
PlayVisit, an spinoff from the BEACONING Project allows users to get excited visiting cultural places by interacting with adventures in which the discovery of the real world through the challenge guides a memorable experience to learn about and learn about history, culture and heritage. PlayVisit has been presented in Tarragona at the 1st…
Read MoreA brief discussion on the article “A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW OF CHALLENGES IN URBAN LOGISTICS”
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This literary article has been accepted in the ISL 2017 conferernce. Along with other projects and grants, BEACONING (H2020) has provided a pedagogical platform behind the research work. Here is a brief discussion on the main methodologies and results of this research attempt: The rapid expansion of urban areas throughout the world is…
Read MoreBEACONING presented by GeomotionGames
Posted by Pau Yanez
The BEACONING project at #SpinUOC On June 16th Pau Yanez, CEO of Geomotion Games, presented the BEACONING project at SpinUOC event organized by the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). #SpinUOC is the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya’s (UOC) transferable knowledge event to present the innovative solutions produced by startups in Catalonia to society and industry.…
Read MoreMeet BEACONING’s industry partners
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BEACONING builds upon the expertise of strong industrial partners: ORT, SUCCUBUS – Succubus Interactive, Advanced Technology Systems, Imaginary Srl, GEOMOTION – Geomotion Games S. L., INFINITY, PLAYSOFT, SEBIT, HFC – Hands Free Computing and SIVECO – Siveco Romania
Read MoreMeet BEACONING’s R&D partners
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The consortium capitalises on the existing synergies between key R&D partners: COVUNI – Coventry Univeristy, HWU – Herriot-Watt University, BIBA – Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik GmbH, INESC TEC Porto – Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores and UCM – Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Read MoreBEACONING countries
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Coventry University coordinates a network of 15 partners from 9 European countries: UK, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Turkey.
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BEACONING ecosystem
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BEACONING ecosystem BEACONING implements an ecosystem of pervasive learning experiences driven by gamified and game-based lesson plans. – the core BEACONING Platform supporting services and communication framework with a focus on interoperability and governing industrial practices; – context-awareness providers that will supply location and sensory information; – a multi-platform game and graphics engine…
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BEACONING objectives
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OBJECTIVES 1. Integrate technologies, pedagogical and social perspectives of using pervasive, context-aware and gamified approaches ensuring that the BEACONING platform is innovative while also extending our scientific understanding and practice-based experiments of engaging a community of learners including those with disabilities with a more inclusive, connected and contextualised learning process. 2. Develop, implement…
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BEACONING concept
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CONCEPT BEACONING’s concept is to digitally enable play-learn in everyday spaces fostering cross-subject learning, facilitated by personified gamified lesson plan where context-aware educational resources and ad-hoc learning in the surrounding environment can be triggered. BEACONING pragmatically addresses the needs of disabled learners, who are engaging with general education. BEACONING pilots the crossings of…
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