Coercive design and gaming addiction

Expert/s: James Driver

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In this episode:

  • How game and social media designers manipulate the interface between site and user to promote engagement
  • The factors that increase the risk for gaming dependency in children
  • When an interest in gaming becomes a problem
  • Working with those with a gaming dependency to help them overcome it

 

Host: Dr Terri Foran, Sexual Health Physician; Conjoint Senior Lecturer, School of Women’s and Children’s Health, UNSW

Guest: James Driver, Psychotherapist; Black Dog Psychotherapy, registered with the Psychotherapists Board of Aotearoa New Zealand (PBANZ), member of the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists (NZAP), Founder of NetAddiction NZ

Total time: 17 mins

 

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Last Updated: 20 Oct, 2021

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