An Analytics Platform for Integrating and Computing Spatio-Temporal Metrics in Location-aware Games

This thesis presents an analytics platform for calculating spatio-temporal metrics in the context of geogames and context-based applications. It is based on an underlying conceptual model for spatio-temporal metrics, which consists of dimensions and variables to describe spatial and temporal phenome...

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Autor: Rodríguez Pupo, Luis Enrique
Tipo de recurso: tesis doctoral
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:CBUC, CESCA
Repositorio:TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red
OAI Identifier:oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/671588
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10803/671588
http://dx.doi.org/10.6035/14101.2021.357562
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Geogames
Context-aware applications
Data model
Metrics processing
Tecnologies de la informació i les comunicacions (TIC)
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Sumario:This thesis presents an analytics platform for calculating spatio-temporal metrics in the context of geogames and context-based applications. It is based on an underlying conceptual model for spatio-temporal metrics, which consists of dimensions and variables to describe spatial and temporal phenomena, metrics functions to calculate application-relevant information and conditions using these data models, and actions to be triggered when certain conditions are met. The analytics platform is implemented as a cloud-based, distributed application that allows developers to define data requirements, collect required (client-generated) data, and define and execute spatio-temporal metrics. It is designed to handle large amounts of (streaming) data and to scale well under increasing amounts of data and metrics computations. The platform is validated in two experiments: a location-aware game for collecting noise data in a city and a mobile application for location-based mental health treatments, which shows its usability, versatility and feasibility in real-world scenario