The Geography of Pokémon GO - Beneficial and Problematic Effects on Places and Movement

Explore a comprehensive analysis of the geographic impacts of Pokémon GO in this 21-minute conference talk from the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Delve into the results of a mixed-methods study involving a five-country field survey of 375 players and a large-scale geostatistical analysis of game elements. Examine key geographic themes of places and movement, uncovering how the game's design reinforces existing geographically-linked biases, potentially instigates a rare large-scale shift in global human mobility patterns, and presents geographically-linked safety risks. Gain insights into the beneficial and problematic effects of location-based gaming at scale, and discover geographic design implications for future systems in this space.