2025 Speakers
Nick Ballou, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oxford
Nick Ballou is a postdoctoral researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute (University of Oxford), where he works on pioneering collaborations with games companies like Nintendo and Unity to understand how video games affect mental health—both for better and for worse. He has published extensively on topics such as gaming for stress relief, gaming disorder, and motivation, and presented this work at leading conferences such as CHI.
