Submission Title
New Directions in Internet Gambling Research
Session Title
Session 2-3-F: Lightning Talks
Presentation Type
Lightning Talk
Location
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Start Date
29-5-2019 1:45 PM
End Date
29-5-2019 3:10 PM
Disciplines
Behavioral Economics | Public Health | Substance Abuse and Addiction
Abstract
Abstract: Partnerships between industry and research have yielded enormous opportunities to advance gambling research. These types of opportunities are particularly salient for online gambling research: online gambling player data allows researchers to easily observe and analyze players’ gambling behavior over longer periods of time compared to traditional means of data collection. A new partnership between the Cambridge Health Alliance Division on Addiction and GVC Holdings (the parent company of several online gambling operators) has the potential to advance internet gambling research even further by allowing us to track the same users across a wider range of gambling products.
Implications: The ability to track internet gamblers across multiple types of gambling products will allow us to have a better understanding of users’ overall gambling behavior. This will make it easier to identify markers for problematic gambling earlier on and develop novel intervention systems for problem gamblers.
Keywords
gambling, Internet gambling, big data
Funding Sources
This work was supported through a contract with GVC Services, Ltd. GVC did not have any involvement in the research itself.
Competing Interests
The Division on Addiction and affiliated faculty have received funding in the past three years from DraftKings, the Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility (FAAR), The Healing Lodge of the Seven Nations via NIH and Indian Health Services (IHS), NIH, the Integrated Centre on Addiction Prevention and Treatment of the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, which receives funding from The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, National Center for Responsible Gaming, the New Mexico Responsible Gaming Association, the British Columbia Lottery Corporation, MGM (through a subcontract with UNLV), and GVC Services, Ltd.
New Directions in Internet Gambling Research
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Abstract: Partnerships between industry and research have yielded enormous opportunities to advance gambling research. These types of opportunities are particularly salient for online gambling research: online gambling player data allows researchers to easily observe and analyze players’ gambling behavior over longer periods of time compared to traditional means of data collection. A new partnership between the Cambridge Health Alliance Division on Addiction and GVC Holdings (the parent company of several online gambling operators) has the potential to advance internet gambling research even further by allowing us to track the same users across a wider range of gambling products.
Implications: The ability to track internet gamblers across multiple types of gambling products will allow us to have a better understanding of users’ overall gambling behavior. This will make it easier to identify markers for problematic gambling earlier on and develop novel intervention systems for problem gamblers.