Whitney R. Garney, Audrey Young, Kenneth R. McLeroy, Monica L. Wendel, Eric Schudiske,
... interactive gameplay. One exergame growing in popularity is geocaching. Geocaching is a high-tech treasure hunt that uses ... their coordinates are listed in an online forum ( Geocaching.com ). Exergames like geocaching are widely endorsed; however, there is a lot ... four current geocachers were recruited from a larger geocaching study to learn about their motivations for engaging ... interviews. Interviews assessed how individuals became involved in geocaching, how frequently they participated, who they went geocaching ...
Tópico(s): Persona Design and Applications
2015 - Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | Games for Health Journal
Rebecca A. Battista, Stephanie T. West, Susan Houge Mackenzie, Julie S. Son,
Geocaching is a way to integrate technology with physical activity. Geocaching utilizes a global positioning receiver system (GPS) that ... activity participation in youth, it was considered that geocaching may be one way to increase physical activity ... fun, and involves technology. From a programming perspective, geocaching may be used as a large special event, ... we were interested in the factors related to geocaching, including psychosocial factors associated with physical activity participation, to determine if geocaching may be of interest for youth physical activity ...
Tópico(s): Persona Design and Applications
2016 - Sagamore-Venture Publishing | Journal of Park and Recreation Administration
Shelagh Robinson, Sarah J. Hardcastle,
... forms of motivation to increase uptake and maintenance. Geocaching is a GPS-based treasure-hunt game with ... aim was to explore the experiences of a geocaching intervention for people introduced to geocaching. A five-week geocaching intervention took place. Participants (n = 30) were recruited ... determine the participants' motives, barriers and experiences of geocaching. Geocaching motivators (social activity, challenge/discovery) and barriers (lack ... and unsuccessful trips) were identified. Findings suggest that geocaching is a feasible activity to promote physical activity, ...
Tópico(s): Family and Disability Support Research
2015 - Taylor & Francis | International Journal of Environmental Health Research
... purpose of this paper is to present the geocaching online survey – the implications of geocaching to social interaction and tourism as useful for ... of Human‐Centred Technology, Tampere University of Technology. Geocaching players were told that their responses would be kept confidential. Secondary material is based on geocaching stories in magazines all over the world, linked to Geocaching.com, that are used here to expand the description of creative tourism products and of how geocaching is used in tourism or to design new ...
Tópico(s): Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking
2012 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology
Rebecca A. Battista, Stephanie T. West,
... the purpose of our study was to evaluate geocaching as a technology-based platform for promoting physical ... participated in 2 separate activity sessions, walking and geocaching. Accelerometers were worn and questions concerning perceived exertion ... from the study reported that both walking and geocaching were enjoyable and relatively easy activities. Discussion: Results from this study do not suggest that geocaching would lead to greater activity levels than walking. Rather, geocaching was found to promote activity levels similar to ...
Tópico(s): Physical Activity and Health
2018 - Taylor & Francis | American Journal of Health Education
This article presents a study of geocaching, a mobile outdoor game, and explores the interactive communication instruments players use. In this case study, an interaction communication instrument refers to ... an informative picture of the global game of geocaching, several related applications, communication channels used by players, ... million people worldwide participating in the game world. Geocaching is a game made by the players, who ... developers. This study will introduce the concept of geocaching and present and define the interaction communication instruments ...
Tópico(s): Mobile and Web Applications
2011 - University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway | Eludamos Journal for Computer Game Culture
This article focuses on an increasingly popular idea: geocaching in combination with environmental education.The author will look at possible ways in which geocaching can be optimally used within environmental education.In ... examines the current discussion at the interface of geocaching and environmental education.Out of the theoretical part, ... following questions arise: Which specific characteristics of a geocaching route might be useful for environmental education?What ... presented.Some of the different opportunities to use geocaching within the realm of environmental education will be ...
Tópico(s): Geographic Information Systems Studies
2012 - | Educational Research eJournal
Silvia Fornasini, Marco Dianti, Alessandro Bacchiega, Stefano Forti, Diego Conforti,
... that promote physical exercise by using technologies is geocaching—a treasure hunt of sorts in which participants ... the promotion of healthy lifestyles in older people, geocaching remains to be unexplored in this area. Objective ... aimed to investigate the effectiveness of activities combining geocaching and self-tracking technologies to promote active aging, ... in the study. Some of them created the geocaching contents, and others, split into 2 teams, participated ... participant was given a pedometer bracelet and the geocaching app. The steps taken by individual participants along ...
Tópico(s): Physical Activity and Health
2020 - JMIR Publications | Journal of Medical Internet Research
Carman Neustaedter, Anthony Tang, Tejinder K. Judge,
... studied the well-established location-based game of Geocaching through active participation and an online survey to ... growth over the last decade. Findings show that Geocaching benefits by having players directly create game content, including both lightweight and elaborate creations. Geocaching has also made it simple for players to ... attributes and suggest how the lessons learned from Geocaching could be applied more generally to the design ...
Tópico(s): Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
2011 - Springer Science+Business Media | Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
... analysis of the location-based mobile game (LBMG) geocaching – a worldwide scavenger hunt enabled by Web 2. ... approach sheds new light on the phenomenon of geocaching as it prioritizes the embodied performances through which ... playfulness related to the game. Previous studies on geocaching have mainly focused on the sharing of places ... conducted from 2011 to 2012 amongst practitioners of geocaching in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Tópico(s): Digital Games and Media
2014 - Intellect | Journal of Urban Cultural Studies
... experience supported by computer. 'The Pori hidden beauties geocaching series' was built on face to face classroom sessions and by the Facebook social network. Geocaching is a global treasure hunt game that uses ... supported collaborative learning on Facebook and task–driven geocaching games, while also suggesting that it can increase ... environments. The result has present increasing availability of geocaching game is changing the way people interact with ...
Tópico(s): Educational Games and Gamification
2015 - Inderscience Publishers | International Journal of Web Based Communities
Ricardo Manuel Nogueira Mendes, Teresa Rodrigues, António Manuel Rodrigues,
... in 2000 in the United States of America, Geocaching has become a major phenomenon all around the ... experiences, motivations, emotions and photos through the official Geocaching website (www.geocaching.com), and several official or informal national web ... a strong social-network. All these characteristics make Geocaching an activity with a strong geographic component that ... Geocaches, and logs numbers. Lacking "natural/rural" environment, Geocaching in cities tend to happen in symbolic areas, ... and historical neighborhoods. The present study looks to Geocaching within the city of Lisbon, in order to ...
Tópico(s): Spatial Cognition and Navigation
2013 - Copernicus Publications | The international archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences/International archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences
... the interplay between player enjoyment and social context. Geocaching is technology–supported treasure hunt activity that uses ... System (GPS) receiver or a smartphone with a geocaching application to find something hidden by other players (Geocaching.com). The results provide a deeper understanding of ...
Tópico(s): Augmented Reality Applications
2014 - Inderscience Publishers | International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing
Daniel Telaar, Antonio Krüger, Johannes Schöning,
... a large-scale quantitative contextual survey of the geocaching community in Germany, one of the world’s largest geocaching communities. We investigate the features, attitudes, interests, and ... reflect on past and future trends within the geocaching community.
Tópico(s): Usability and User Interface Design
2014 - Hindawi Publishing Corporation | Advances in Human-Computer Interaction
Anna F. Cord, Franz Roeßiger, Nina Schwarz,
... recreational purposes. In this study, we focus on 'geocaching', a worldwide outdoor game in which the participants ... highest close to the city centre and that geocaching is indeed a type of local recreation and ... educated people according to our surveys. In summary, geocaching data offer exciting opportunities to explore spatial gradients, ...
Tópico(s): Land Use and Ecosystem Services
2015 - Elsevier BV | Landscape and Urban Planning
Kathryn A. Boys, Katherine DuBreuil White, Gordon Eugene Groover,
Geocaching is a modern-day version of “hide and seek” where participants use geographical longitude and latitude ... program. A case example of an agriculturally focused geocaching program, AgCache, is used as a starting point. ... and recruiting organizations into an agricultural or rural geocaching program.
Tópico(s): Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
2017 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Sustainable Tourism
Heather Skinner, David Sarpong, Gareth White,
... with the existing gamified location-based practice of geocaching as an information and communication technology enabled gamified ... based on the understanding of an existing practice (geocaching) that is undertaken among a community of practitioners ( ... practices. Findings Findings indicate that through engaging with geocaching, smaller entrepreneurial businesses even in non-urban destinations ...
Tópico(s): Educational Games and Gamification
2018 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Journal of Tourism Futures
... this georeferenced data to assess recreational ecosystem services. Geocaching is one such worldwide outdoor game. It has ... caches. This study explores the possibility of using geocaching data as a proxy for recreational ecosystems services ... and searched for in urban areas and that geocaching is strongly associated with the presence and accessibility ... flow. The results presented here provide evidence that geocaching spatial data can act as an indicator for ...
Tópico(s): Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
2018 - Pensoft Publishers | One Ecosystem
Inês T. Rosário, Rui Rebelo, Paulo Cardoso, Pedro Segurado, Ricardo Manuel Nogueira Mendes, Margarida Santos‐Reis,
... assess and are seldom considered by land managers. Geocaching, an outdoor game that uses Global Positioning System ( ... assess CES. However, contrary to other crowdsourcing databases, geocaching allows to associate particular experiences to accurate locations. ... of each location). We tested the relevance of geocaching databases as CES indicators using a dataset of ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
2019 - Elsevier BV | Ecological Indicators
Jiří Schneider, Veronika Jadczaková,
Rising popularity of geocaching is linked to increased risk of negative impacts on natural environment.Based on that, this paper intends to present ... in these areas in the log-run and geocaching has been steadily extending offer of recreational activities.Therefore, it seems desirable to examine how geocaching affects environment and simultaneously how topography or land ... attendance, environment attractiveness or visually detected impacts of geocaching on natural environment.Our study revealed the major ...
Tópico(s): Geotourism and Geoheritage Conservation
2016 - Mendel University Press | Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis
Ana Paula Falcão, António Damásio, Ricardo Melo,
Geocaching is a recreational sport activity considered as a postmodern treasure hunting game. Associated with the movement ... the search for new landscapes, culture and adventure, geocaching is being integrated into the tourism industry. In ... Thus, this study was developed to understand the geocaching practice profile, geocaching travel behaviour and the motivations for the practice of geocaching, and to examine whether these variables are associated ... 613 responses were obtained. The results show that geocaching is a recent sport activity in Portugal, whose ...
Tópico(s): Outdoor and Experiential Education
2017 - Varna University of Management | European Journal of Tourism Research
Lisa H. Matherson, Vivian H. Wright, Christopher T. Inman, ELIZABETH K. WILSON,
... global positioning systems (GPS) in a popular activity, geocaching, as a teaching and learning activity. The authors ... one social studies teacher’s first use of geocaching and share perspectives from the teacher and her ...
Tópico(s): Mobile Learning in Education
2008 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Social Studies Research and Practice
Geocaching is a worldwide game of hiding and seeking, in which participants can place a cache anywhere ... existence and location online. This article describes the geocaching adventures the author took with three boys, ages ... literacy. Finally, the author discusses the implications of geocaching and other digital literacies for teachers, providing links ...
Tópico(s): Mobile Learning in Education
2011 - Wiley | The Reading Teacher
Kelly Best Lazar, Stephen Moysey, Scott Brame, Alan B. Coulson, Cindy M. Lee, John R. Wagner,
... activities that are integrated and implemented within a geocaching framework to provide students with these outdoor, extracurricular ... geology course independently completed geology lessons at each geocaching site via a Google Forms platform. Across 757 ...
Tópico(s): Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
2018 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Geoscience Education
... Problem Based Learning (PBL) approach supported with Instructional Geocaching Game (IGG). Geocaching is an outdoor location based-digital game in ...
Tópico(s): Mobile Learning in Education
2019 - | Review of International Geographical Education Online
Geocaching is an activity which libraries of all types can use as an educational and promotional tool. ... may not be regular users of the library. Geocaching can also be used by libraries as an ... tool, and examples of educational outcomes related to geocaching are provided. The placement of a geocache within ... used as an example of a library using geocaching as an educational and outreach tool. The geocache ... received a very positive response from the local geocaching community. This article provides some background to geocaching, ...
Tópico(s): Web and Library Services
2014 - Taylor & Francis | The Australian Library Journal
... also for interactive description and development of experiences. Geocaching is a worldwide treasure hunt game that requires ... creative experiences when travelling. The paper looks at geocaching from a perspective of creative tourism experience. The ... to understand users' creative experiences when engaging in geocaching and (2) to examine how users' creative experience of geocaching applies to adventure tourism solutions. The conclusion presents ... in Finland and shares new ideas to develop geocaching games for adventure tourism solutions.
Tópico(s): Spatial Cognition and Navigation
2013 - | International Journal of Leisure and Tourism Marketing
Claudia Hödl, Ulrike Pröbstl‐Haider,
Geocaching started in the year 2000 as a leisure activity in which the recreationists try to find ... and the nearest trails. The results show that geocaching takes place in all six Austrian national parks, ... urban areas tend to be used more for geocaching.
Tópico(s): Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
2017 - Austrian Academy of Sciences | eco mont (Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research)
... This article discusses the advantages and challenges of geocaching in education, based on a literature review. The ... forest education. The most important advantages of educational geocaching include: 1) going out to the field, including ... the problems one faces with the use of geocaching include a lack of knowledge and practice of ... traditional way of teaching, the laborious preparation of geocaching, limitations set by nature such as a short ... overall, due to the comprehensive advantages of educational geocaching, it should be more widely implemented in both ...
Tópico(s): Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
2020 - De Gruyter Open | Forest Research Papers