Aging well, can digital game help?-A WoW survey for gamers aged 55+

[emily26]

Dear World of Warcraft gamers,

If you are aged 55+, you are welcome to take a survey about the social and emotional impacts of playing WoW on older adults. It is part of a 4-year founded project: “Aging well, can digital games help?”

Our goal is to examine how to use digital games to improve the quality of life of older adults. In addition to exploring questions about your WoW playing experiences, our study explores the potential social and emotional benefits of playing WoW, like dealing with loneliness, depression and isolation issues.

Here is the survey link: http://fluidsurveys.com/surveys/davi...dults-and-wow/

This survey will take approximately 10 minutes. To maintain the confidentiality of survey response, after submitting the survey, you will be directed to a separate website to provide contact info if you wish to become eligible for the lucky draw of two $100 cash prizes.

This research has received ethics approval and is being conducted under permission of the Simon Fraser University Research Ethics Board. If you have any concerns or complaints with respect to your participation in this research as a participant, please direct them to Dr. Jeffrey Toward, Director, Office of Research Ethics at [email protected] or 778-782-6593.

I'd like to thank everyone in advance for taking the time to complete the survey.

Emily Zhang
PhD Candidate,
Faculty of Education
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, Canada

[jimmyamd]

are you from *****ia?

[emily26]

are you from *****ia?

No, I'm from Canada.

[Nevodark]

are you from *****ia?

Actually looks like a legitimate thread and not a random survey spam. so try not to troll i think ^^ hehe

[Eryx]

I will do whatever I can to support research, and I'll allow this thread even if we have a policy against stuff like this.

Please behave, those starting to troll will be infracted.

Good luck on your project, Emily26, I hope you can share some of your findings with us later

[emily26]

I will do whatever I can to support research, and I'll allow this thread even if we have a policy against stuff like this.

Please behave, those starting to troll will be infracted.

Good luck on your project, Emily26, I hope you can share some of your findings with us later

Thank you very much for your support. I will report the findings.

[emily26]

Dear survey participants, until now, we got 3 responses from this forum. Thank you very much for your time and support.

But we need a total of 500 participants. There is still a long way to go. Our goal is to understand whether playing WoW is an effective way to deal with issues experienced by older adults, like loneliness and social isolation. This kind of research is very significant to them. So, if you are aged 55+ and a WoW player, please take a few minutes to complete the survey.

[Proceed]

Have you tried opening a thread on the offcial forums ?
Maybe they will allow it, i can imagine they could be interested in the results.

[emily26]

Have you tried opening a thread on the offcial forums ?
Maybe they will allow it, i can imagine they could be interested in the results.

I've tried to get permission from Battle.net, but haven't got reply.

[Nevodark]

I've tried to get permission from Battle.net, but haven't got reply.

Would you be allowed to post it without permission anyway?

And posting it on the official forum or here i think you may get troll results ^^

gl

[emily26]

We got 69 participants now. If you haven't complete the survey, please take a few minuties to do it. Thank you very much.

[imdasandman]

I would write to the main editor over at wow.joystiq.com and mmo - champion as those 2 sites actually get alot of exposure. Way more than oc does.

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[emily26]

I would write to the main editor over at wow.joystiq.com and mmo - champion as those 2 sites actually get alot of exposure. Way more than oc does.

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Thank you very much. I will post to those forums.

[emily26]

Hi,
Here are some backgrounds for this study.

In the spring 2013, we did a survey about general digital games playing among older adults. We found many older adults play digital games with their grandchildren.

In the spring 2014, we did a Wii Bowling experiment. We had 20 teams, each of which had 4 members. These teams competed with each other. We assessed how playing game together affects their social interaction. Here is the score board: http://wiibowl.wordpress.com/

Now, we are doing this WoW survey. Our next step is to conduct a WoW experiment to assesss the cognitive impacts of playing WoW on older adults.

[Eryx]

Really interesting research. Cool to see e-Sports finally getting some attention also from scientists that want to look at the positive effects, and not only tunnel vision the on the downsides.

I'm obviously too young to participate in your project but if there is anything I can do to help, don't hesitate to contact me on a PM here on the forums or just ask for my skype.