Videogame-Related Illness and Injury: A Review of the Literature and Predictions for Pokémon GO!

Pourmand, Ali; Lombardi, Kevin; Kuhl, E; O’Connell, Francis

doi:10.1089/g4h.2016.0090

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“…Video game-related injuries have been widely observed since the advent of video games [33,34]. As the video game market shifted from exclusively controller-based games to include motion-tracking technologies, physical risks of gameplay increased, with the potential for more traumatic injuries to the entire body [33].…”

Section: Physical Safetymentioning

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“…As the video game market shifted from exclusively controller-based games to include motion-tracking technologies, physical risks of gameplay increased, with the potential for more traumatic injuries to the entire body [33]. ARGs may increase the risk for injury even beyond that of motion-tracking games.…”

Section: Physical Safetymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, several reports of accidents and injuries from playing Pokémon GO emerged soon after the game's release [33,35]. Gamers sustained fractures, bruises, sprains, and motor vehicle accidents that were largely attributed to gamers' inattentiveness as a result of deep fixation on the game [35].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Augmented Reality Video Games: New Possibilities and Implications for Children and Adolescents

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McLaughlin

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Abstract:In recent years, the video game market has embraced augmented reality video games, a class of video games that is set to grow as gaming technologies develop. Given the widespread use of video games among children and adolescents, the health implications of augmented reality technology must be closely examined. Augmented reality technology shows a potential for the promotion of healthy behaviors and social interaction among children. However, the full immersion and physical movement required in augmented reality video games may also put users at risk for physical and mental harm. Our review article and commentary emphasizes both the benefits and dangers of augmented reality video games for children and adolescents.

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“…On the other hand, problems have been also reported as a result of excessive and uncontrolled use of this game, such as addiction (10), accidents (11,12), invasion of private property, and physical ergonomic problems (13). However, up till now, few studies have investigated variables associated with playing Pokémon GO in Peru, especially in minors.…”

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Compulsive gaming in secondary school students from five Peruvian cities: Usage and addiction to the Pokémon GO game

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Introduction: Some years ago, the Pokémon GO game became incredibly popular. However, no studies on the subject have been conducted in Peru involving vulnerable populations, such as adolescents. Objective: To determine if the number of hours playing the Pokémon GO game is associated with Internet and/or video game addiction, as well as to other factors in secondary school students from five Peruvian cities. Materials and methods: Cross-sectional, analytical, and multi-centric study, with a sample of 944 school students. General characteristics, including socio-educational aspects, and Internet and/or video game addiction were analyzed, as well as variables related to the use of the game, such as problems at home, with teachers, accidents, and theft. Results: We found statistical associations between the assessed variables and increased playing time. 409 (44%) students had an Internet addiction, 215 (23%) were addicted to video games, and 336 (49%) spent a significant number of hours per day playing Pokémon GO. A greater number of hours playing Pokémon GO was associated with having a video game addiction (prevalence ratio (PR): 1,33; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.07-1.65), greater use of cell phone applications

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“…There were reports of assault and personal injury caused while playing the game [32], reports that drivers of motor vehicles crashed while distracted with the game [6] or hit a wayward Pokémon GO occupied pedestrian [45], and, most alarming, criminals quickly realising that a Pokéstop in secluded areas paired with the ironically named 'lure' game item could provide victims for muggings and sexual assaults [15]. Health practitioners began to talk of an emerging pandemic of Pokémon GO injuries [80]. At the height of the Pokémon GO popularity in the Northern summer and autumn of 2016 [91], it had become firmly linked to law in the semiosphere, both in terms of the illegalities caused by users, and users as victims of crime [85].…”

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Seeing, Moving, Catching, Accumulating: Pokémon GO, and the Legal Subject

Shum¹,

Tranter

2017

Int J Semiot Law

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This paper argues that the augmented reality gaming application for smart devices, Pokémon GO shows the fate of the legal subject as a neoliberal monster subjugated to the limitations imposed by hypercapitalism. The game, derived from Nintendo's iconic Pokémon franchise, reveals the legal subject as a frenzied, diminished and impulsive being, allowed to see, move, catch and accumulate but unable to participate in more meaningful self-narration. It is not that the game is lawless, notwithstanding, anxieties in the semiosphere about users trespassing or engaging in criminal behaviour. Rather the game is over structured and highly limited, both within its game-play which is repetitive and impulsive, and in its absence of narrative. Unlike the classic Nintendo Pokémon games which are within the role-playing game genre, Pokémon GO abstracts the seeing, moving, catching and accumulating features of the classic games without the overarching narrative, questing and competition. In this Pokémon GO manifests the transformation of the liberal legal subject of capitalism to the neoliberal subject of a digital orientated hypercapitalism where seeing, moving, catching and accumulating is immediate and impulsive, obliterating the 'prudent' subject participating in their own self-narration.

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Videogame-Related Illness and Injury: A Review of the Literature and Predictions for Pokémon GO!

Cited by 35 publications

References 37 publications

Augmented Reality Video Games: New Possibilities and Implications for Children and Adolescents

Augmented Reality Video Games: New Possibilities and Implications for Children and Adolescents

Compulsive gaming in secondary school students from five Peruvian cities: Usage and addiction to the Pokémon GO game

Seeing, Moving, Catching, Accumulating: Pokémon GO, and the Legal Subject

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