Wagner-Greene, Victoria. 2017. Pokémon GO: Healthy or Harmful?
Wagner-Greene, V. (2017, January). Pokémon GO: Healthy or Harmful? Retrieved from https://search.proquest.com/docview/1853308592?pq-origsite=summon Wagner-Greene et al. conduct and discuss research on whether the popular augmented reality game Pokémon Go is beneficial or detrimental to society. In their research they found that 27% of Pokémon Go players had driving as their preferred mode of travel while playing the game, 32% preferred to walk, and 43% chose to play the game while biking. A whopping 38% of players said that they would sacrifice their sleep to play the game (Wagner-Greene et al. 2017). In addition to these findings, participants in the study “were asked how many days per week they engaged in 30 or more minutes of physical activity before downloading Pokémon GO and then after starting to play it” (Wagner-Greene et al. 2017). At the start of the study, only 31% of the participants fit the activity requirements while at the end the amount increased to 75% of participa...