Looking forward to presenting our work soon at IDC! IDC2024 Cody J. Phillips Daniel Johnson Peta Wyeth

I’m excited about our fresh paper in a special issue on digital games and mental health, edited by Dr. Rachel Kowert. We model how passion for playing WoW predicts in-game social capital, loneliness, and wellbeing (Julian Frommel Daniel Johnson). doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.… /1

In today's lab meeting we reviewed a bunch of 30 second video previews from papers presented at previous @sig_chi conferences. Having listed what worked and what didn't, we came up with a set of top tips

Esports athletes have reported using electrical brain stimulation to gain a competitive edge. We show that this form of edoping yielded performance improvements in a response inhibition game. As the popularity of esports grows, implications for regulation are clear. Open access!

The ACM SIGCHI CHIPLAY conference is conducting an open call for membership of the conference Steering Committee. There are more details here buff.ly/3mwBsjw with the nomination form available here buff.ly/3pVfBob #chiplay2021 #chiplay2022 ACM SIGCHI

Very excited to work on this project with such an amazing team: Leanne Hides, Melanie White, Dr. Regan Mandryk (Regan on 🦣), Professor Anders Drachen, Selen Turkay, David Lovell (QUT Centre for Data Science), Dimitri Perrin, Bernd Ploderer, Professor Sarah Kelly OAM, Daniel King, Janni Leung, Gary Chan, Dan Lalande and John Saunders.

Check out our new paper led by Matthew Lee Daniel Johnson Winnifred Louis and myself on the relationship between habit, toxicity and social identification in video gaming (in DOTA2)!

✅Published! Longitudinal study of high school esports - bit.ly/3FXgfWK "esports participation did not have a negative impact on any health or psychological factors" remco polman Dr Tristan Coulter Paul Davis Dr Dylan Poulus Esports Research Network #esports #esportsresearch

We are hiring 2 post-docs to work with us at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child (around digital play, videogames, digital technology design, digital literacies and STEM, digital technologies and wellbeing). 3 yrs FT. Pls share! tinyurl.com/ye2x2han

The latest GRID lab paper "Self-Regulation as a Mediator of the Associations Between Passion for Video Games and Well-Being" is free to download at present (before it goes behind the journal paywall). Please enjoy :-) bit.ly/3szs2Xd

Help us to understand & optimise the impact of videogames on the wellbeing of children. We're seeking children aged 7-13 years to participate in our Responsible Innovation in Technology for Children project in Brisbane. For more info, visit bit.ly/RITEC_ Daniel Johnson

More sessions have been added in August & Sept for our Responsible Innovation in Technology for Children project! Find the dates & more info here: bit.ly/RITEC_ Daniel Johnson

🎮ESPORTS RESEARCH Do you play Valorant, Apex Legends, CS:GO or Rainbow Six Siege? I'm a researcher interested in improving performance of esports players. Please see the study details below or contact me for more details. EOI here: forms.office.com/r/g91mdmigfd #esports #research

The PACM HCI October issue, which contains all of the #chiplay2022 full papers, is open for the next 30 days. Download the papers and watch the videos in the Association for Computing Machinery DL. dl.acm.org/toc/pacmhci/20…

Super interesting paper presented by Cody J. Phillips at #chiplay2022 (with excellent Pokémon references) - youtu.be/uAWuRltG6PE

Help us to understand & optimise the impact of videogames on the wellbeing of children. We're seeking females aged 7-13 years to participate in our Responsible Innovation in Technology for Children project in Brisbane this week. More info: bit.ly/RITEC_ Daniel Johnson

Do you use Discord for both gaming and for work (e.g., teaching, conferencing, professional associations)? If so, please consider doing this 10–15min survey and enter for a 1/50 chance to win a $100 gift card. DM me with questions or to follow up. surveymonkey.ca/r/DualDiscord

We are advertising for a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in digital games / VR / AR at QUT (please help spread the word). NB. Limited to people who have ongoing full-time work rights in Australia. tinyurl.com/QUTGames

Awesome work Blake Kammermann - top tier venue and a great contribution to the field.

Congratulations Riley Dunn on your poster presentation at this year's Women in Sport Congress Women In Sport Congress 2024. With approximately 45% of gamers identifying as women, and only 3% present in esports physiology research, it's time to Press Start on Equity in Esports Research!