Understanding familial locative play: Exploring parent online social learning to play Pokémon Go

Learning to Play the Game of Go

The problem of creating a successful artificial intelligence game playing program for the game of Go represents an important milestone in the history of computer science, and provides an interesting domain for the development of both new and existing problem-solving methods. In particular, the problem of Go can be used as a benchmark for machine learning techniques. Most commercial Go playing p...

Examining Motivations to Play Pokémon GO and Their Influence on Perceived Outcomes and Physical Activity

BACKGROUND Pokémon GO is the most played augmented reality game in history. With more than 44 million players at the peak of its popularity, the game has sparked interest on its effects on the young population's health. OBJECTIVE This pilot study examined motivations to start playing Pokémon GO among a sample of US college students, and how motivations were associated with perceived outcomes ...

Computers Play Chess, Computers Play Go...Humans Play Dungeons & Dragons

Computers Play Chess; Humans Play Go

Learning to play Go using recursive neural networks

Go is an ancient board game that poses unique opportunities and challenges for artificial intelligence. Currently, there are no computer Go programs that can play at the level of a good human player. However, the emergence of large repositories of games is opening the door for new machine learning approaches to address this challenge. Here we develop a machine learning approach to Go, and relat...