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Natasha Sch\u00fcll, M.I.T. Program in Science, Technology, and Society.\u00a0Addiction by Design: From Slot Machines to Candy Crush<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Slot machines, revamped by ever-more compelling technological innovations, have unseated traditional table games as the gambling industry\u2019s revenue mainstay. Along the way, they have earned such nicknames as \u201celectronic morphine\u201d and the \u201ccrack cocaine of gambling.\u201d Does problem machine gambling stem from inside the device, from inside the gambler, or from the interaction between the two? Drawing on fifteen years of research among game engineers and machine gamblers in Las Vegas, Natasha Sch\u00fcll will take the audience \u201cinside the machine\u201d to explore how contemporary slot machines\u2014their game algorithms, their cash access systems, their ergonomic design\u2014facilitate gamblers\u2019 escape into a trancelike state they call \u201cthe zone\u201d in which daily worries, social demands, and even bodily awareness fade away.\u00a0Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Year of the Humanities, and the DH Lab.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Natasha Sch\u00fcll, M.I.T. Program in Science, Technology, and Society.\u00a0Addiction by Design: From Slot Machines to Candy Crush. Slot machines, revamped by ever-more compelling technological innovations, have unseated traditional table games as the gambling industry\u2019s revenue mainstay. 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