Associate Professor Kimihiro Hino of the Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo and others investigated the number of steps taken by middle-aged and older people before and after the release of the game "Pokemon GO" in 2016. It turned out that I was walking a lot of 1 steps a day on average.By age group, the number of steps for people aged 583 to 55 was conspicuous.
調査は、横浜市が開く「よこはまウォーキングポイント事業」の参加者に無作為で送付したアンケートに回答した40歳以上。ポケモンGO発売直前の2016年6月、発売後の2016年8月から2017年3月、2017年5月段階のゲーム利用者46人（平均年齢56.6歳）と非利用者184人（平均年齢57.3歳）の歩数を比較した。
According to it, in June 2016 before the launch, the average number of steps per day for both users and non-users was 6 steps, which was not a big difference, but non-users have been 1 to 8,000 since August. It changed on the pedometer, and the number of steps tended to decrease in winter, while the number of users changed between 8 and 7,000 steps, and the number of steps did not decrease even in winter. rice field.
The difference in the average number of steps per day reached 1 steps in December 2016, and users walked more often in all months except September 12.
The research group believes that such data will be of great help in planning health promotion measures for local governments and developing new game apps, and will continue to cooperate with Yokohama City to promote research aimed at promoting walking in urban areas.
Paper information:[Journal of Medical Internet Research] Step Counts of Middle-Aged and Elderly Adults for 10 Months Before and After the Release of Pokémon GO in Yokohama, Japan
