Effects of Gambling Seminar
Hi Everyone,
- Are you concerned about the time your students /young people spend on devices Gaming and probably Gambling?
- Do you wonder what the implications of the saturation of Gambling adverts on the TV and in Social media?
- Have you been alerted to difficulties getting youth off devices /screens occasionally or often?
Join our FREE Zoom Seminar and hear experts talk about the effect of engaging with these activities, gaming behaviour and how it affects well-being.
Wednesday 24th May at 7.00pm viaZoom
Bookings https://www.trybooking.com/CHJQZ
Bios
Dr Jim Sauer and Dr Aaron Drummond (University of Tasmania) are psychological scientists with an interest in the effects of video gameplay on cognition and behaviour.
Since 2018, they have had a particular interest in the effects of engaging with loot boxes (gambling-like rewards in video games) on player’s gaming behaviour and well-being.
Together, they published the first empirical evaluation of the psychological similarities between loot boxes and gambling (2018), a second paper establishing that loot boxes meet some important legal criteria to be considered gambling (2020), and the first meta-analytic demonstration of the positive association between loot box spending and problem gambling symptomatology (2021).
Since 2018, Sauer and Drummond have authored a series of peer-reviewed publications on loot boxes, and provided oral and written testimony to Australian, UK, NZ and US governmental inquiries on the issue.
Our work has contributed to loot boxes being added to the US Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) and European (PEGI) classification descriptors. In March 2021, this work informed expert testimony given by Dr Drummond before the Consumer Protection Committee of the Illinois General Assembly (US).
Sauer and Drummond have contributed to public information endeavours with presentations on the issue being provided to Te Tari Taiwhenua (Department of Internal Affairs NZ), Hāpai Te Hauora (Māori Public Health), Atareira Mental Health Support, the New Zealand Psychological Society, the International Association of Gaming Regulators, and to a public awareness campaign about loot boxes in collaboration with Te Mana Whakaatu (Classification Office NZ) and the Problem Gambling Foundation of New Zealand.
They have also contributed to the dissemination of public information about loot boxes to consumers by acting as expert panellists at the largest technology and gaming convention in the Southern Hemisphere: PAX Australia (convention attendance approximately 70,000-90,000).
Sam Macauley Lead Educator – Cyber Safety Project
Sam is a proud primary school teacher whose advocacy for student leadership and digital citizenship led him towards becoming a Co-Founder of the Cyber Safety Project. Sam’s has the unique ability to engage young people, educators, and families in the conversation of online safety and digital wellbeing to help develop the skills needed to independently navigate the online world.
Feel free to contact me for any further information
Kind regards
Penny Christie
Community Engagement Officer
Integrated Service Team - EACH
