The Influence of Mobile Games on Interpersonal Relationship: A Case of Pokemon GO Game

碩士 === 義守大學 === 資訊管理學系 === 105 === With the high popularityrate of intelligent devices like smartphones and tablets, and the explosive growth of mobile applications, the connection between students and mobile gamesis becoming more and more significant for the parents, educators,scholars, and educati...

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Main Authors: Yueh-Chan Hsiao, 蕭岳展
Other Authors: Yi-Hui Liang
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2016
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ms95cm
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Summary:碩士 === 義守大學 === 資訊管理學系 === 105 === With the high popularityrate of intelligent devices like smartphones and tablets, and the explosive growth of mobile applications, the connection between students and mobile gamesis becoming more and more significant for the parents, educators,scholars, and education system. The development of interpersonal relationships in high school and vocational school’s students is gradually maturing, and more and more students build theirinterpersonal relationships through online games ormobile games. In this study, we take “Pokemon Go” as the research object, which is an augmented reality game for mobile phones and instantly caused a global phenomenon, and target on a total of 202 students from high schools and vocational schools in Kaohsiung City to conduct a questionnaire survey. The purpose of this research is to understand the students’ backgrounds and the relevance and differences between the use of frequency of “Pokemon Go” and students’ interpersonal relationships. The results of this study are shown as follows. First, among the different background factors, the "discipline methods of educators" and “the educators’attitudetoward mobile games” these two factors have significant difference in regard to playingthe mobile game “Pokemon Go”. Second, the mobile game “Pokemon Go” has positive influence on students’ interpersonal relationships of classmates and friends. Finally, according to the results of the study, a number of suggestions are provided to the educators and education system as reference for the future study.