Addiction by design : machine gambling in Las Vegas / Natasha Dow Schüll.

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2012]

xi, 442 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-423) and index.

Introduction: mapping the machine zone -- Interior design for interior states: architecture, ambience, and affect -- Engineering experience: the productive economy of player-centric design -- Programming chances: the calculation of enchantment -- Matching the market: innovation, intensification, habituation -- Live data: tracking players, guiding play -- Perfect contingency: from control to compulsion -- Gambled away: liquidating life -- Overdrive: chasing loss, playing to extinction -- Balancing acts: the double bind of therapeutics -- Fix upon fix: recipes for regulating risk -- Conclusion: raising the stakes.