Pokémon GO or Pokémon Gone: How can cities respond to trends in technology linking people and space?

Cities and Health

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 89-94

  Adlakha, Deepti ^a   Marquet, Oriol ^b   Hipp, J Aaron ^b   Tully, Mark A ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cities; mobile gamification; Pok mon GO; technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85058689777     PISSN: 23748834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/23748834.2017.1358560     Document Type: Note

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