My name is Dr Guy Porter, a clinical researcher based in Sydney, Australia. I am part of a team of researchers headed by Dr Vladan Starcevic, Associate Professor at the Discipline of Psychological Medicine, University of Sydney.

We are investigating patterns of video game use, both online and offline. Specifically, our project aims to determine the characteristics and impact of excessive video game use.

We are looking for video game users from all backgrounds and who play all types of video games to take part in an anonymous online survey.

This project is not for profit and has received ethics committee approval by The University of Sydney.

If you’d like to take part, please follow the link below to our website:

http://www.nepean.med.usyd.edu.au/research/psych.php
(The survey can be found at the top right corner)

Alternatively, if you would like to learn more about our research, have a look at a recent interview with me by the Australian PC magazine ‘Atomic’:

http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/article.asp?CIID=104069


-Dr Guy Porter
Clinical Associate
The Faculty of Medicine
University of Sydney
Australia

For:
A/Prof Vladan Starcevic
Discipline of Psychological Medicine
University of Sydney
Australia

I am most certainly legitimate and definitely not a bot. Will hang around this forum for any discussion regarding the survey too.

You can also email A/Prof.Starcevic (our senior researcher) if you wish to verify that this is a genuine research project (his email is on the survey webpage - first link).

Heyyy, pretty cool. Sure, I'll take the survey...unless it ends up being intensive.

Lah-dee-dah...the survey be loading. 10-20 minutes? I can spare some time out of my extremely busy (haha) life to complete it.

*taking survey*

Alllll done! I haven't been hearing TOO many voices in my head as of late, but I'll be in touch if I do. Hah!

Seriously, I'll just yell at them to shut up and keep it to myself.

Seems interesting...I will do the survey and when are you gonna be finished? I mean like when are you gonna post the results of the survey?

Thanks for taking the survey!

The results will be published in a peer-reviewed medical journal once the data analysis is complete. I won't be able to post the results immediately on the forums as one of the requirements for journal article publication is that the results are not revealed elsewhere beforehand. However we are certainly aware that most gamers would not read medical journals so I do hope to feed back to the gaming community eventually (most probably via popular media such as another 'Atomic' magazine interview).

Today I met with A/Prof.Starcevic and the research team and it was decided that the survey will now close and data analysis will now commence. The survey has been live for over 4 months and we have a large number of participants.

Thank you very much indeed to everyone who took part!

Your responses are much appreciated, including the open text comments which we are just as important to us as the core data.