Parents who play Pokemon go with your children several advantages such as more exercise, more time outside and possibilities of family rela...
Parents who play Pokemon go with your children several advantages such as more exercise, more time outside and possibilities of family relationships than those who enjoy that do not, new research says.
to examine in the first study parents and to interview, play the Pokemon go with their families, some parents said the interactive and mobile nature of the game - in the sense the players fictitious creatures of Japanese Pokemon franchise smartphones and other mobile devices in parts of "find" real world - makes them feel better in this type of game to participate, as the sedentary forms of opposition "screen time."
The results, a qualitative study of 67 interviews with parents and parents play based on 20 GB with a Pokemon with their families in a park in Seattle, are detailed in a paper at the Association for the CHI 2017 conference will present machines in May ,
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The study did not consider the views of parents who do not allow their children Pokemon GO play, which is an important way for future research.
Some insisted recriminations between Pokemon Go, and prevent many children limits that so engrossed in the game that she ignored cars or other hazards and responsibility in the real world. The delays were the setting, children require to make the first tasks or homework, turn off your phone when children do not return when they were asked parents or keep control of smartphones, while playing family.
Many parents, however - especially mothers of children, parents, girls and young children parents - reported spending more time with their children because of play Pokemon go hand in hand and talking more than usual, both the game itself and other things in their lives.
also appreciate parents as both motivated them and their children to go outside and exercise in a way that to enter their lives useful and the game because their children show a new enthusiasm for walking the dog or walking instead of going to dinner or playground.
For some these walks Poke led thousands of steps a day, and one of the parents reported that its 11 years had lost 12 pounds.
"Location-based augmented reality games are very different from sitting in front of a TV or playing a typical game, they were interested in how children and their parents shared this experience together," the author Kiley said main Sobel, a UW doctoral student in focus of human development and construction.
"People do not really know how to develop a technology that will work well for families, so that when this game came out of nowhere really successful, they wanted to see what were the ingredients for success. "
When the UW interdisciplinary research team was the first to observe the people who shortly after the publication in a popular outdoor mall Pokemon Go play in July last year of the game, she noticed something interesting after the last sunset Seattle summer sun: the children were outside with their parents until midnight.
"Obviously it was past bedtime for all", the lead author Jason Yip, assistant professor in the School of Information at the University of Washington said.
"We also noticed that the parents play Pokemon much as the kids were, and we had never seen with Minecraft or another Nintendo game. So we knew that it was something that was different. "
began play in follow-up interviews with families that go hand in hand Pokemon, almost all parents had safety concerns about the play of children, not to pay attention to where they would interact with foreigners. To address these problems, many parents set boundaries or rules on how to play because only older children can move from the house at a certain distance and demanded that the younger children only to the playing device of a parent.
But many parents realized net profits of the whole experience, including the notice new details such as the nature parks or pocket in her neighborhood, teach your children how the streets navigate all security and a common interest with their children, especially in old age, communication complicated can be. As a mother with her games, the investigators said at the age of 8 years:
"I think that only helps us to find a common thing that we can do together as a mother and a child, and that's really impressive to me ... As a child out of school, they do not tell you that they ate or. .. what teachers, but now you say these things so it's a great way to be the communication. "
Since the Pokémon franchise was introduced in 1995, some parents also grew with the characters of their increased interest in playing the new game on on the site.
The simplicity of the game compared to other like Minecraft has lowered the bar for parental involvement and prior knowledge and experience of Pokémon characters often took to see them as "experts" who they could teach their children valuable.
"Pokemon is for more than 20 years. How do children play and interact with their parents through Pokémon Go was different and "exciting, he said co-author and human-centered design and engineering student at the University of Washington Arpita Bhattacharya, who see religious raised my television series Pok? And playing movies and the card game with friends.
"But it was also popular with parents who knew nothing about Pokemon. "
The research team has recognized the GO Pokemon six terms as previous researchers have identified a "new joint compromise" productive for families met as the leading.
Including the ability to play the game together and learn to involve the motivation for many generations, and features that make it easy to bring the game out of reach, such as the ability, the phone in a pocket to put contained until the next creature seems to have on the screen all the time.
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to go in addition to Pokémon players who run and work together, so parents more likely to accept or promote gambling or are participating with their children.
That is, recognized some of these parents that nature "dependency" Pokemon GO could lead to requests for their children to play forever.
In examining the perspectives, values and challenges of parents who Pokemon playing with their children, the team of scientists and computer scientists of human-computer interaction researchers UW learning hope to throw new light on how design technologies invite families to reunite.
"It is about to explode a very difficult thing - how different generations get people to want to play, but for various reasons," Sobel said.
"These designers have enjoyed a more openness from casual users appeals to phones for players serious games kids smart. "
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