Accessing the Pokélayer: Augmented Reality and Fantastical Play in Pokémon Go

Jensen, Lucas John; Valentine, Keri Duncan; Case, Joshua P.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-27986-8_9

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“…Research also reveals that AR has positively impacted other businesses [14]. Many solutions such as reshaping the business process and strategies, the critical role in digital marketing strategies [15], influencing our social life experience [16], making new schemes of gaming experience [17], and creating a new level of advertising media like public large display [18], tourism and travel industries [19], designer and architecture [20]. Together with VR [21], AR technology has contributed to creating a new trend in the metaverse.…”

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Acceptance of augmented reality in video conference based learning during COVID-19 pandemic in higher education

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Three years after the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, we have adapted to the new normal, especially in the education field. Learning with video conferences has become our daily activity, and learning tools have gotten more prominent attention to gain student engagement, especially in emergency remote teaching (ERT). Since the trends of metaverse campaigns by meta, augmented reality (AR) has increased recognition in education contexts. However, very little research about the acceptance of augmented reality in video conferences, especially among university students. This paper aims to measure acceptance of AR in video conferences to motivate and inspire students to gain benefits and get impactful technology in the learning process. The research gathered data from a survey of 170 university students (from 5 majors in the study program and 17 different demographic areas) using unified theory of acceptance of technology 2 (UTAUT2). The result reveals that variables significantly impact acceptance: performance expectancy, hedonic motivation, and habit. The least significant but still positive effects are effort expectancy, social influence, and facilitating conditions. The study will provide helpful information on AR technology in video conferences and help top-level management in the university that provides online/distance learning in the early diffusion stage for metaverse in education.

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“…In LBGs it is crucial to have sensor-data of the players' real world location so it can be represented in the digital realm (Laato et al, 2021b). The digital world then becomes a parallel and additional layer of reality (Jensen et al, 2019), and while the territorial conflict takes place in this realm, it influences player behaviour, movement and attitudes in the physical world as well (Liberati, 2018).…”

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Territorial or nomadic? Geo-social determinants of location-based IT use: a study in Pokémon GO

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PurposeLocation-based games (LBGs) have afforded novel information technology (IT) developments in how people interact with the physical world. Namely, LBGs have spurred a wave of territoriality (i.e. controlling) and exploration (i.e. discovering) of augmented physical space that are driven by different social dynamics related to group formation, social connectivity and altruism. The aim of this study is to investigate this dynamic and how it is further related to the use intensity of location-based IT.Design/methodology/approachThis work presents a structural equation model that connects social dimensions of play to territorial control and exploration, and playing intensity. The model was tested with sychometric data gathered from a global sample of Pokémon GO players (N = 515).FindingsIn the tested sample, players' social self-efficacy and altruism were positively associated with team identification. Team identification, in turn, was positively associated with both territorial control and exploration tendency. Territorial control had a significant relationship with playing intensity; however, exploration tendency did not. This implies territorial control is the stronger predictor of playing intensity.Practical implicationsThe findings suggest that human primal urges to conquer and control geographical territory may surface in the digital reimagination of physical space. LBGs offer opportunities for making use of new forms of play (territorial control and exploration) in motivating locative behaviours.Originality/valueThis research quantifies the relationships between a social predisposition, team identification, territorial control, exploration tendency and playing intensity in the context of Pokémon GO. It contributes new knowledge to the understanding of territorial behaviour (control and exploration) in location-based IT.

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“…For example, the digital girl can ask to go to a places for a romantic dinner, to watch a movie at the cinema, and even to get an ice cream (Wakabaiyashi, 2010). Such way of intertwining the digital activities with the everyday life of users in order to merge the digital world and the real one has been used in other products like Pokémon Go as studied by many researchers working on how the digital entities are something more than mere characters in a fictional world (Liberati, 2018b(Liberati, , 2019bAshcraft, 2016;Mogg, 2016;Laato et al, 2020a, b;Jensen, Valentine, and Case 2019).…”

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Digital Intimacy in China and Japan

Liberati

2022

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This paper aims to show a possible path to address the introduction of intimate digital technologies through a phenomenological and postphenomenological perspective in relation to Japanese and Chinese contexts. Digital technologies are becoming intimate, and, in Japan and China, there are already many advanced digital technologies that provide digital companions for love relationships. Phenomenology has extensive research on how love relationships and intimacy shape the subjects. At the same time, postphenomenology provides a sound framework on how technologies shape the values and meanings we have. Thus, this paper introduces two digital technologies in Japan and China (Love Plus and XiaoIce chatbot), and it analyses according to the elements proposed by phenomenology and postphenomenology. In conclusion, this paper shows how digital companions like Love Plus and XiaoIce chatbot change who we are and the values and meanings we have according to the phenomenological and postphenomenological framework. These entities might not be human, but they shape who we are as human beings and the meanings and value we give to love.

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Accessing the Pokélayer: Augmented Reality and Fantastical Play in Pokémon Go

Cited by 14 publications

References 15 publications

Acceptance of augmented reality in video conference based learning during COVID-19 pandemic in higher education

Acceptance of augmented reality in video conference based learning during COVID-19 pandemic in higher education

Territorial or nomadic? Geo-social determinants of location-based IT use: a study in Pokémon GO

Digital Intimacy in China and Japan

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