Evan Hirschonline
CollaboratorShort bio
I work with clients to design ecosystems, adapt bleeding edge research and develop end-to-end strategies that help improve the lives of their patients, practitioners and users.
Top-3 games
- Still love me some Madden
- Limbo
- Whatever my lovely daughter wants to play
"I know a guy"
The best creative work happens inside the constraints of reality.
About me
As a cofounder of the PlayNice Institute BV, we are building a company to design and develop accessible, evidence-based games that promote emotional resilience and strong mental health through FUN, world-class and engaging experiences. What could be better?
As Executive Creative Director and Managing Partner of Engine Co. 4, LLC., I lead teams to develop innovation + design strategies for clients that are true to their organizations, and users. We like to partner with clients to discover 360-degree solutions to complex, real world problems that people face in their lives.
Our recent clients include:
- American Heart Association
- American Medical Association
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- The Pokémon Company
- Trimbos Institut
- US Naval Post Graduate school
- Ubisoft
- University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technology
In my free time, I am Director on the Executive Committee of ACM SIGGRAPH and a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).
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Professor and Chair of the Developmental Psychopathology department in the Behavioural Science Institute; writer; voracious podcast consumer; mother of two upstanding little gamers
Professor at McMaster's University & Co-founder of PlayNice Interactive
GEEK, Game designer, artist, producer, anime and video game enthusiast, American football player, and as of recently a newb gardener. I'm pretty much always down for new ventures and experiences - O' ley do it!
Founder of Koontz Interactive
Phd student working on a training program for Dutch Police incorporating Virtual Reality and Biofeedback.
PhD-Candidate at Radboud University
Associate Professor in Developmental Psychology at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Associate Professor at Queen's University
I am not so interested in *whether* certain interventions work but *how* they work. That is, I am mainly focusing on underlying processes and mechanisms of change across diagnostic categories and different treatment modalities. Mother of two wild boys!
Professor of Orthopedagogics at University of Groningen
Jan Brammer
Brains, bytes, and bikes.
PhD-Candidate
Assistant prof. and data geek at the GEMH lab, dynamical modelling, personalisation, wants to put the I back into AI, news junkie, cat lover.
Assistant Professor
Rutger Engels
CEO at Trimbos Institute / Professor Developmental Psychopathology Utrecht University
Marientina Gotsis
Research Assistant Professor
Karin Roelofs
Professor of Experimental Psychopathology at the Behavioural Science Institute (BSI) and chair of the PI-group “Affective Neuroscience” at the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (DCCN), Radboud University. Director of the EPAN Lab (www.epanlab.nl)
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