Milad Soroush

Milad Soroush is a PhD student in the Department of Management Sciences at University of Waterloo. His focus is primarily on exploring self-control and self-control improvement.

In one line of research he is focusing on self-control improvement especially on designing successful interventions such as game-based trainings that can help users promote their self-regulation ability in life. In another line of research, he is exploring the effect of free-to-play (freemium) business model on players’ experience in casual games, and their decision-making to spend money on in-app-purchases.

Milad is working under supervision of Mark Hancock at the University of Waterloo and Vanessa Bohns at Cornell University.

Projects

• Self-Control and In-App-Purchases in Candy Crush Saga™

• Games for Self-Control

Publications

2018

• M. Soroush, M. Hancock, and V. K. Bohns, Investigating Game Mechanics That Target Players’ Self-Control While Maintaining Engagement, in Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, New York, NY, USA, 2018, p. 489–502.

2014

• M. Soroush, M. Hancock, and V. Bohns, Self-control in casual games: The relationship between Candy Crush Saga players in-app purchases and self-control, in Proc. GEM, 2014.