Conference paper · 2022

Do People Use Games to Compensate for Psychological Needs During Crises? A Mixed-Methods Study of Gaming During COVID-19 Lockdowns

Nick Ballou, Sebastian Deterding, Ioanna Iacovides, Laura Helsby

VenueCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
DOI10.1145/3491102.3501858
URLhttps://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491102.3501858
TopicsReplicHAI / Iarygina 2026 CHI corpus
ISBN978-1-4503-9157-3
conferenceNameCHI '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
languageen
libraryCatalogDOI.org (Crossref)
pages1-15
placeNew Orleans LA USA
publisherACM
rightshttps://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy#Background
shortTitleDo People Use Games to Compensate for Psychological Needs During Crises?

BibTeX

@inproceedings{ballou_people_2022,
	address = {New Orleans LA USA},
	title = {Do {People} {Use} {Games} to {Compensate} for {Psychological} {Needs} {During} {Crises}? {A} {Mixed}-{Methods} {Study} of {Gaming} {During} {COVID}-19 {Lockdowns}},
	copyright = {https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright\_policy\#Background},
	isbn = {978-1-4503-9157-3},
	shorttitle = {Do {People} {Use} {Games} to {Compensate} for {Psychological} {Needs} {During} {Crises}?},
	url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491102.3501858},
	doi = {10.1145/3491102.3501858},
	language = {en},
	urldate = {2026-11-05},
	booktitle = {{CHI} {Conference} on {Human} {Factors} in {Computing} {Systems}},
	publisher = {ACM},
	author = {Ballou, Nick and Deterding, Sebastian and Iacovides, Ioanna and Helsby, Laura},
	month = apr,
	year = {2022},
	pages = {1--15},
}