01 · RESEARCH
what i do
░ OPEN SCIENCE, OPEN DATA, & OPEN CODE ░ WHEREVER POSSIBLE
I'm Thomas Hakman, a PhD researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute. My research asks a plain question: what does digital technology, such as video games, social media, and AI, actually do to our well-being and mental health?
To answer it, I analyze the digital trace data and millions of hours of play stored on the servers of technology companies. For access to that data, I combine participant data-donations, GDPR Data Subject Access Requests, and data-access collaborations with industry. Alongside all this, I collaborate with child rights organisations and regulators such as Save the Children, Ofcom, UNICEF, and the European Commission.
Everything I publish aims to be open science, open data, and open code wherever possible.
video games
psychology
social media
ai
well-being
mental health
open science
data donation
ai governance
# FIELD REPORT 26X07071/6
SUBJECT: ACTIVE PROJECTS · ALL LINES PROCEED ACCORDING TO PROTOCOL. NOTHING HERE IS FINISHED.
│ ID │ Project │ With │ Status │ ├──────┼──────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────┤ │ P-01 │ AI-enabled digital childhood │ Dieter Schwarz │ Active │ │ P-02 │ Video game play and mental health │ OII · Oxford │ Active │ │ P-03 │ Youth e-sport athletes' child rights │ Save the Children │ Active │ └──────┴──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────┴─────────┘
ID Project Status ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── P-01 AI-enabled digital childhood Active P-02 Video game play and mental health Active P-03 Youth e-sport athletes' child rights Active
- ROLE
- DPhil candidate, Social Data Science, Oxford
- FELLOWSHIP
- Dieter Schwarz Research Fellow, AI Governance & Policy
- SUPERVISOR
- Prof. Andrew K. Przybylski
- PREVIOUSLY
- MSc Social Science of the Internet, Oxford
OPEN PLAY: THE LARGEST PUBLIC DATASET ON VIDEO GAMES AND MENTAL HEALTH
We tracked 1.5 million hours of play across 10,475 titles on Nintendo Switch, Steam, and Xbox for 3,600 players, paired with 23,000 survey responses measuring wellbeing, motivation, cognition, mental health, and sleep over 12 weeks. All openly available to the public.