The Daily Mail, CTV and Roundhouse Radio highlighted UBC research that showed augmented reality games, such as Pokémon GO, could help introverts.
“Video games have a lot of social aspects and therefore require players to have good social competence to do well playing them,” said lead author Adri Khalis. “The game provides a context in which interacting with others might be easier than walking up to a stranger and striking up a conversation from the get-go.”
