Pokémon GO and Improvement in Spatial Orientation Skills

Carrera, Carlos Carbonell; Saorín, José Luis; Medler, Stephany Hess

doi:10.1080/00221341.2018.1470663

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“…AR and Pokémon Go had garnered both positive and negative reaction in a short time due to the healthy and harmful effects to the player, at the same time. Pokémon GO application can offer great possibilities for the development of spatial abilities, such as improving spatial orientation (Carbonell Carrera et al 2018). The application not only encourages the players to walk but also distracts the player from the real-world, as has been proven by the many accidents and crimes, occurring after the launch of the game.…”

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confidence: 99%

Augmented Reality Marketing in Malaysia—Future Scenarios

Ramasamy

2018

Social Sciences

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Augmented Reality (AR) marketing is a novel and creative way to market products and services. However, there are concerns about its marketing effectiveness as it is still immature to take over the place of traditional marketing method. Hence, this study was aimed to identify the issues and drivers of employing AR, in marketing, and to study the future trend of AR marketing in Malaysia. Foresight methodology tool, the Social, Technological, Environmental, Economic, Political, and Values (STEEPV) method was used in identifying the issues and drivers of employing AR in marketing. Furthermore, an impact-uncertainty analysis was used to identify the top two drivers of the subject. The top two drivers identified were the "need for interrelation between the virtual and the real word" and "technological knowledge generation" with the highest statistical mean vote for impact and uncertainty, respectively. The development of scenario analysis was constructed in correspondence with the top two drivers which gave insights into the four alternative possibilities in the time horizon of 5 to 10 years. The drivers must coexist in order to generate potential scenarios for the development and sustainability of AR marketing in Malaysia.

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Augmented Reality Marketing in Malaysia—Future Scenarios

Ramasamy

2018

Social Sciences

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“…In addition, it is a known fact that the use of augmented reality technologies in daily life and mobile devices has become widespread. The main problem here is the scarcity of evidence of the learning outcomes of these geogame applications (Andrade et al, 2020;Baker, et al, 2015;Carbonell Carrera, et al, 2018;Schneider, Schaal, & Schlieder, 2017); when considering especially in the context of this study, it is the lack of proven data on the acquisition of spatial thinking and geographic skills. This situation raises the following questions for researchers and geography educators: Educational subject-based game design and implementation; how to use the necessary technology; how to provide widespread and cheap access to these games; how to approach games in pedagogical terms, which games to choose, and teacher training; how games can be updated with feedback, and how necessary cooperation and promotion can be provided; and it raises the questions of how to collect concrete data on learning outcomes of games, and it brings up new research areas.…”

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“…While Nebel, Schneider, & Rey (2016) stated that geogame is still limited studies on the use of existing training practices in the game Minecraft; Lefebvre (1970) with Mather & Robinson (2016), stated that this lack was even greater in architecture, urban planning, or in the field of geography (as cited in Andrade et al, 2020). Carbonell Carrera, Saorín, & Hess Medler (2018) stated that playing Pokemon GO can be used as a tool to improve spatial orientation skills, but there is not enough proven data in the literature of the field. Baker et al (2015) report that the benefits of geo-technologies in learning environments are frequently mentioned in the literature.…”

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How Geogames Can Support Geographical Education?

Adanalı¹

2021

Review of International Geographical Education Online

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Knowledge of geography is one of the main elements in solving problems such as urbanization, socio-economic inequalities, disease, migration, natural disasters. It is also seen that importance is given to the acquisition of geographical skills in educational programs. The spatial thinking skill that provides geospatial information is a geographic skill needed in the analysis and interpretation of place. Geographical inquiry skill focuses on solving a problem in line with certain research processes. Geographic information systems are the basic spatial technology used in the development of spatial thinking and geographic inquiry skills. These three elements are effective tools for solving real-life problems and have become even more important today with the development of location-based mobile applications. It is believed that Geogames from digital games can be an effective new teaching technology in learning these elements within the framework of motivational sources and learning needs in the learning environments of generation Z, which was born into digital technology. Geogames are mobile, location-based, and location-aware games for devices such as smartphones and tablets. In the literature, some types of geogame can also be classified as serious game or pervasive game. Geogame is separated from these games by its focus on solving a spatial problem with its stakeholders, mainly using GIS technology, and is closely related to the science of geography. This review is intended to question how Geogames can support geographical education. For this purpose, Youplaceit! Geocaching on the Moon, Neocartographer, Ingress, OriGami, SimCity, Project Lily Pad, Minecraft-Urban Planning, and FindeVielfalt Simulation geogame applications have been studied in terms of current learning outcomes and features. According to the results, these games can be used in the teaching of physical and human geography topics such as environmental education, urban planning, space geography, tourism geography; can be effective in teaching map skills, spatial thinking, and geographic inquiry skills; can increase collaborative work and motivation. It has been determined that there is a need for research that will provide concrete data in this new academic discipline, and some research questions have been put forward for geography educators and researchers.

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“…Augmented reality allows students to perceive the course under study in a new way. Compared to other interactive teaching methods, augmented reality provides much better results [35,37].…”

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“…The app functionality and principles allowed users to acquire spatial thinking skills. While playing the game, the user used cartographic perspective, ground level perspective and augmented reality to achieve their goals; this had a positive impact on players [37].…”

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Mobile Learning Programs for Spatial Decision Making

Troyanskaya

Tyurina

Morgunova

et al. 2021

Int. J. Emerg. Technol. Learn.

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The proliferation of mobile devices and easy internet access open up a huge number of opportunities for many people around the world. Anywhere anytime learning is one of these opportunities. Despite the prevalence of mobile learning, it is not always possible to find a convenient application that covers several areas. The uniqueness of the research is the development of an application that could become an excellent solution for studying several academic disciplines and developing spatial skills on the example of a certain subject. As a result, an application model that allows studying geometry, physics, chemistry, geography, economics and social studies has been developed; these are the disciplines that most involve spatial thinking. Spatial skills are taught based on two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects, animation, images, maps. The use of augmented reality technology to increase the effectiveness of teaching spatial thinking has been considered. The model implementation allows using the app for independent activities and educational purposes.

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Pokémon GO and Improvement in Spatial Orientation Skills

Cited by 15 publications

References 32 publications

Augmented Reality Marketing in Malaysia—Future Scenarios

Augmented Reality Marketing in Malaysia—Future Scenarios

How Geogames Can Support Geographical Education?

Mobile Learning Programs for Spatial Decision Making

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