The Pokemon GO craze has tapped in to our desire to seek out rewards. But there different types of rewards in life, each designed to capture our attention, even train our behaviour.
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‘Pokémon Go’ has the ability to make people wander around nature looking for fantasy creatures – but will this translate into people exploring real-life nature?
What if someone made your house a site for Pokémon battles?
A key element of enjoyment, it turns out, is the ability to fully experience a game. What ethical obligations do game designers have to ensure this?
Graffiti and street art are not just a backdrop in Pokémon Go but also a template for how to navigate urban space. Indeed lovers of street art have long played their own kind of multi-player game, with sites and rewards hidden across the city.
What if the most interesting thing the Pokémon Go phenomenon offered was where it leads you?
Technology’s burgeoning possibilities have put pressure on our law courts when it comes to the principle of ‘open justice’.
What research into game play and human interaction can tell us about why the newest mobile game craze is attracting so many different people to play.
Augmented reality games have been around for more than a decade, so what was it about Pokémon GO that allowed it to become a global phenomenon?
The Pokemon GO craze has transformed a generation of gamers who admit they would otherwise be inside watching TV, surfing the internet, or playing console games.
Pokémon’s new augmented reality app reveals the challenges we’ll face when robots and other autonomous technologies become commonplace.
The latest Pokémon GO craze is transforming some public and private spaces as people interact with the game via their smartphone. In some cases, this might unwelcome, even problematic.
Within days of its release the new Pokémon Go had got people pounding the streets trying to capture virtual creatures. But already there are concerns over the risks it poses to gamers.
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Professor in Human-Computer Interaction, ARC Future Fellow, University of Sydney
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Professor of Media Cultures, University of Portsmouth
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Professor, Computer Science, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications, Swansea University
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Professor of Computational Media, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Honorary Fellow (Philosophy), Durham University
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Lecturer, Screen and Cultural Studies, School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law, University of Sussex
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Lecturer, Monash University
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ARC Australian Laureate Professor, University of Tasmania
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Professor, College of Business, University of Sharjah
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Lecturer in Education, Monash University
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ARC DECRA Fellow and Associate Professor, Emerging Technologies, Deakin University
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Lecturer in Media and Communications, City St George's, University of London