scholarly journals How Do Location-Based Augmented Reality Games Improve Physical and Mental Health? Evaluating the Meanings and Values of Pokémon Go Users’ Experiences through the Means-End Chain Theory

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 794
Author(s):  
Gordon Chih-Ming Ku ◽  
I-Wei Shang ◽  
Meng-Fan Li
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Game Design ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Leisure Activity ◽  
Online Games ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Chain Theory ◽  
Pokémon Go ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Childhood Memory

New technology has dramatically changed online games and blurred the boundary between active and passive activities. This study aims to explore the meanings and values of augmented reality online games by examining users’ Pokémon Go experiences through the means-end chain theory. Using data from interviews with 34 Pokémon Go users, this study adopts the soft laddering method to identify Pokémon Go’s potential attributes, consequences, and values, and to construct a hierarchical value map. The results indicated that Pokémon Go users pursue social relationships through play, and these relationships are triggered by the benefits of making new friends, maintaining current relationships with friends and family, and the attributes of prevalence, childhood memory, game design, and augmented reality. Subsequently, this study describes how Pokémon Go can be considered an active leisure activity because of its social, mental, and physical benefits and assesses the implications of its findings.

Pokémon Go as a cognitive map: Simplifying and focusing movement in postmodern urban spaces

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-194
Author(s):  
Charles Soukup
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Game Design ◽  
Cognitive Mapping ◽  
Local Community ◽  
World View ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Pokémon Go

The location-based, augmented reality video game Pokémon Go has been an unprecedented phenomenon in the short history of mobile smartphone applications. In this article, I argue that the remarkable success of Pokémon Go derives from its cognitive mapping qualities within postmodern, hyper-mediated environments. By focusing and filtering the vast information associated with navigating postmodern spaces, Pokémon Go provides individuals with greater clarity by defining the subject’s social identity in relationship to the physical environment. In particular, the game recentres the fragmented subject’s disorienting experiences associated with postmodern cultures immersed in digital information. Via its integration of location-based gaming, rudimentary augmented reality, simple mobile game design and collaborative local community-based game-play, Pokémon Go allows the individual to move about the complex urban environment with great confidence, purpose and clarity ‐ the search for Pokémon frames the player’s objectives and attention (literally via the smartphone screen). Drawing upon the media ecology tradition, the contemporary world-view or media logic of ubiquitous digital media is dominated by quantification, clear game-like rules, and the ‘productive’ collection and management of information.

scholarly journals Oh, no, Pokémon GO! Media panic and fear of mobility in news coverage of an augmented reality phenomenon

2021 ◽  
pp. 205015792110522
Author(s):  
Tal Laor ◽  
Hananel Rosenberg ◽  
Nili Steinfeld
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
New Technology ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Pokémon Go ◽  
Virtual Experiences

Media panics research is concerned with widespread social anxiety formed around a new technology or medium. This study adds to existing research by characterizing a new form of media panic around augmented reality applications, and specifically that which erupted concerning Pokémon GO, a popular augmented reality game. Based on a content analysis of items related to the game published in Israel's major print and online media in the period immediately following the game's launch, we classify the negative media coverage as a media panic and propose an explanation for its emergence. We argue that the negative reactions to the game stem specifically from the game's unique features and its mobile infrastructure, and especially its use of augmented reality that combines users’ virtual experiences and their interactions in actual physical space. We identify a third wave of mobile panic in this current phenomenon, one which takes into account the unique features of mobile technology as infrastructure for augmented reality applications. In contrast to previous incidents of media panic that focused on the harmful effects of increased technology use by young users, and their detachment from their physical environment, this wave represents an essentially opposite phenomenon, in which physical mobility itself, facilitated by the use of augmented reality, is deemed dangerous to players’ health and safety.

Just Another Media Cluster?

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-31
Author(s):  
Christian Zabel ◽  
Gernot Heisenberg
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Oculus Rift ◽  
Pokémon Go

Getrieben durch populäre Produkte und Anwendungen wie Oculus Rift, Pokémon Go oder der Samsung Gear stößt Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality und auch Mixed Reality auf zunehmend großes Interesse. Obwohl die zugrunde liegenden Technologien bereits seit den 1990er Jahren eingesetzt werden, ist eine breitere Adoption erst seit relativ kurzer Zeit zu beobachten. In der Folge ist ein sich schnell entwickelndes Ökosystem für VR und AR entstanden (Berg & Vance, 2017). Aus einer (medien-) politischen Perspektive interessiert dabei, welche Standortfaktoren die Ansiedlung und Agglomeration dieser Firmen begünstigen. Da die Wertschöpfungsaktivitäten sowohl hinsichtlich der Zielmärkte als auch der Leistungserstellung (z. B. starker Einsatz von IT und Hardware in der Produkterstellung) von denen klassischer Medienprodukte deutlich abweichen, kann insbesondere gefragt werden, ob die VR-, MR- und AR-Unternehmen mit Blick auf die Ansiedlungspolitik als Teil der Medienbranche aufzufassen sind und somit auf die für Medienunternehmen besonders relevanten Faktoren in ähnlichem Maße reagieren. Der vorliegende Aufsatz ist das Ergebnis eines Forschungsprojekts im Auftrag des Mediennetzwerks NRW, einer Tochterfirma der Film- und Medienstiftung NRW.

scholarly journals Secondary School Teachers’ Professional Development in Australia and Shanghai: Needs, Support, and Barriers

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824402110269
Author(s):  
Guangbao Fang ◽  
Philip Wing Keung Chan ◽  
Penelope Kalogeropoulos
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Teachers Professional Development ◽  
Scheduled Time

Using data from the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS; 2013), this article explores teachers’ needs, support, and barriers in their professional development. The research finds that Australian teachers expressed greater needs in information and communication technology (ICT) use and new technology training for teaching, while Shanghai teachers required more assistance to satisfy students’ individual learning and pedagogical competencies. More than 80% of Australian and Shanghai teachers received scheduled time to support their participation in professional development, whereas less than 20% of Australian and Shanghai teachers received monetary or nonmonetary support. In terms of barriers, Australian and Shanghai teachers reported two significant barriers that conflicted with their participation in professional development: “working schedule” and “a lack of incentives to take part.” This article reveals implications of the study in the design of an effective professional development program for Australian and Shanghai teachers and ends with discussing the limitations of the research and future research directions.

PENINGKATAN KESADARAN TERHADAP TERJADINYA TRAUMA MUSKULOSKELETAL PADA ANAK YANG BERMAIN GAME SMART PHONE BERBASIS AUGMENTED REALITY

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-18
Author(s):  
Helmi Ismunandar ◽  
Ahmad Fauzi ◽  
Rani Himayani ◽  
Soraya Rahmanisa
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Pokémon Go

Latar Belakang: Augmented reality merupakan teknologi pengolahan gambar dan grafis  komputer untuk menggabungkan konten digital ke dunia nyata. Pokemon Go merupakan salah satu game berbasis augmented reality yang mengharuskan pemainnya berburu monster di tempat yang berlokasi di dunia nyata. Pemain Pokemon Go beresiko mengalami kecelakaan saatmereka fokus pada layar smartphone sehingga mengabaikan lingkungan sekitarnya. Tujuan:Tujuan pengabdian ini adalah peningkatan pengetahuan dan kesadaran terhadap terjadinya trauma muskuloskeletal pada anak pengguna smart phone yang bermain game berbasis augmented reality. Metode: Pengabdian ini direncanakan menggunakan metode penyuluhan danpembagian kuisioner (pretes dan postes). Hasil: Kegiatan penyuluhan dan skreening ini diikuti oleh 50 orang yang terdiri dari orangtua, siswa, dan guru TK Titah Bunda yang datang menghadiri penyuluhan. Setelah dilakukan kegiatan penyuluhan, nilai hasil pengamatan (postes) didapatkan meningkat. Hampir semua peserta sudah paham sebanyak 47 peserta (94%), sementara 3 (6%) peserta lagi nilai post test <80. Kesimpulan: Setelah mendapatkan penyuluhan terdapat peningkatan pengetahuan masyarakat mengenai cedera saat bermain permainan berbasis augmented reality

Effect of augmented reality game Pokémon GO on cognitive performance and emotional intelligence in adolescent young

2018 ◽  
Vol 116 ◽  
pp. 49-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Ruiz-Ariza ◽  
Rafael Antonio Casuso ◽  
Sara Suarez-Manzano ◽  
Emilio J. Martínez-López
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Cognitive Performance ◽  
Pokémon Go ◽  
Augmented Reality Game

Along the Lines of the Occupation

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Cristiano ◽  
Emilio Distretti
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Green Line ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Pokémon Go ◽  
East Jerusalem

Augmented reality enables video game experiences that are increasingly immersive. For its focus on walking and exploration, Niantic’s location-based video game Pokémon Go (PG) has been praised for allowing players to foster their understanding and relationship to surrounding spaces. However, in contexts where space and movement are objects of conflicting narratives and restrictive policies on mobility, playing relies on the creation of partial imaginaries and limits to the exploratory experience. Departing from avant-garde conceptualizations of walking, this article explores the imaginary that PG creates in occupied East Jerusalem. Based on observations collected in various gaming sessions along the Green Line, it analyzes how PG’s virtual representation of Jerusalem legitimizes a status quo of separation and segregation. In so doing, this article argues that, instead of enabling an experience of augmented reality for its users, playing PG in East Jerusalem produces a diminished one.

scholarly journals Is Pokémon GO Feminist? An Actor-Network Theory Analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carina Assuncao
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Game Design ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Game Studies ◽  
Entertainment Media ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Pokémon Go ◽  
Politics And Gender ◽  
And Gender

The Pokémon franchise has been targeted and has been successful with males and females (Tobin, 2004). In it, cute-looking creatures with superpowers fight each other for the fame and glory of their masters (the players). The franchise includes a plethora of entertainment media. This essay will focus on the recent release, Pokémon GO. This particular game and its location-based technology will be analysed using cyberfeminism and actor-network theory to explore the play space as a context for kinaesthetic awareness and embodiment. The cyberfeminism herein exploited is that of “the utopian tradition of imagining a world without gender” (Haraway, 2000, p. 292). Actor-network theory, a strong methodological tradition in science and technology studies, sees actors and the networks they create as completely ‘flat’ and non-hierarchical. ANT has been criticised for its lack of concern with politics and gender (Lagesen, 2012) but, in combination with a feminist lens, ANT has the potential to uncover issues that other approaches in game studies cannot. This original framework can help game studies scholars to see gameplay processes in a new light by following the many actors involved in game design and use.

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