Where to catch'em all?-a geographic analysis of Pokémon Go locations

作     者：Levente Juhász Hartwig H.Hochmair 

作者机构：Geomatics ProgramUniversity of FloridaFort LauderdaleFLUSA 

出 版 物：《Geo-Spatial Information Science》 (地球空间信息科学学报（英文）)

年 卷 期：2017年第20卷第3期

页      面：241-251页

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学科分类：0809[工学-电子科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 08[工学] 

主　　题：Pokémon Go VGI(Volunteered Geographic Information) Yelp cluster South Florida Boston HCl(human-computer interaction) 

摘      要：In 2016,Niantic Labs released Pokémon Go,an augmented reality smartphone game that attracted millions of users *** game allows users to“catchPokémons through their mobile cameras in different geographic locations that often correspond to prominent *** paper analyzes the distribution of PokéStops,Pokémon gyms,and spawnpoints in selected urban areas of South Florida and *** identifies which socioeconomic variables and landuse categories affect the density of PokéStops,and how PokéStops and gyms cluster relative to each *** nearest neighbor analysis,this paper assesses also how actual PokéStop locations are reflected in Yelp’s“PokéStop nearby*** show that black and Hispanic neighborhoods are disadvantaged when it comes to crowd-sourced data coverage,that PokéStops occur more frequently in commercial,recreational and touristic sites and around universities,and that PokéStops tend to cluster around *** latter suggests that these point sets were generated by a similar location selection *** mitigate geographically linked biases,future versions of augmented reality and geo-games should aim to make them equally accessible in all areas,for example by placing extra resources,such as points of interest,in neighborhoods that are currently underrepresented in data coverage.