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Public opinions about an older adult playing a persuasive game: Based on social media messages

Aging and Health Research, 2023
Information and communication technologies (ICT), such as mobile games, can potentially decrease social isolation by facilitating online and offline connections.
Jia-Wen Guo, Martin Cheehong Chow, Joseph Amici, Pei‐Chun Yu, Chia-Ting Kuo   +4 more
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Location-based Games as Exergames - From Pokémon To The Wizarding World

International Journal of Serious Games, 2020
Exergames, i.e. games which aim to increase player’s physical activity, are a prominent sub-category of serious games (SGs). Recently, location-based games (LBGs) similar to Pokémon GO have gained the attention of exergame designers as they have been ...
Samuli Laato, Sonja Hyrynsalmi, Sampsa Rauti, A.K.M. Najmul Islam, Teemu H. Laine   +4 more
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Pokémon GO y su influencia en usuarios españoles de Facebook

Apunts: Educación Física y Deportes, 2018
Pokémon GO es un juego de móvil de gran éxito a nivel mundial que une el mundo Pokémon a través de la realidad aumentada (RA) con el mundo real, exigiendo a los jugadores moverse físicamente.
Juan Carlos Escaravajal-Rodríguez
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Impacts of Mobile Phone Distractions on Walking Performance

Indonesian Journal of Computing, Engineering and Design, 2020
This work studies the effect of playing mobile phones while walk-ing to pedestrian safety. Thirty young-adults were observed while walking around Skanderbeg square with and without playing Pokemon GO.
Gjergji Selamaj
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Pokémon Go: the dawn of global augmented reality [PDF]

, 2016
Pokémon Go is considered the most popular game ever for smartphones. It has more daily users than the social network Twitter. In the United States, on the first week, more than 10% of mobile phones with Android downloaded the game.
Sousa, Ivo Dias de
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Pokemon Go Oyunu Bağımlılığını Destekleyen Bileşenlerin Kalitatif İncelenmesi

Online Academic Journal of Information Technology, 2017
Dijital oyun bağımlılığı kavramı, yeni medya iletişimin gelişmesiyle birlikte hayatımızda daha fazla yer almaktadır. Bu kapsamda artırılmış gerçeklik oyunu olarak Pokemon GO oyunu ele alınmıştır.
Yusuf Bahadır Doğru, Onur Karakaş, Ramazan Ertel   +2 more
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The Race to Escape: Location-Based Escapism and Physical Activity as a Motivator in the Consumption of the AR Game Pokémon Go

Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberpspace
This research examines motives for engagement in Augmented Reality (AR) games. The research field examined in this study was Pokémon Go, due to the game’s rapid rise in popularity.
Tal Laor
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Pokémon Go

, 2016
Pokémon Go is a location-based app by Niantic released for Android and iOS model phones. It is a game in which the user catches, trains, and battles with Pokémon. Pokémon, or “pocket monsters,” were first seen in games developed for the Nintendo Game Boy,
Darrington, Shelly
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The Geography of Pokémon GO

, 2017
The widespread popularity of Pokémon GO presents the firstopportunity to observe the geographic effects of locationbasedgaming at scale. This paper reports the results of amixed methods study of the geography of Pokémon GO thatincludes a five-country ...
Donald Degraen, Thebault-Spieker, Jacob, Kate Kuehl, Valentina Nisi, Häkkilä, Jonna, Nina Wenig, Johannes Schöning, Nunes, Nuno Jardim, Lin, Allen Yilun, Degraen, Donald, Allen Yilun Lin, Brent Hecht, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Colley, Ashley; id_orcid, Jonna Häkkilä, Dirk Wenig, Wenig, Nina, Nuno Jardim Nunes, Fischman, Benjamin, Nisi, Valentina, Ashley Colley, Benjamin Fischman, Kuehl, Kate   +22 more
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Location-Based Games and the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis of Responses from Game Developers and Players

Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2020
In early 2020, as a countermeasure to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments issued limitations on the movements of their citizens, cancelling social events and advising people to stay home.
Samuli Laato, Teemu H. Laine, A.K.M. Najmul Islam   +2 more
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