While failing may be painful and may sometimes even come as a surprise, failing is also what allows us to move forward and develop ourselves. And with holidays over and challenges surely awaiting us, we will be focusing on a feeling we’re all familiar with to one degree or another - fear of failure.
There’s a belief that talking about mental illness as a disease (the disease model) reduces stigma and makes it easier for people to get treatment. Others think that the best approach to talking about mental health is to focus on the similarities, thinking of mental health problems as a continuum from the normal “being stressed out” to extreme reactions to stress. There’s no easy solution to this dilemma.
We've all had first aid classes in school, but what about classes on how to help a friend who's feeling down, stressed out or anxious? In this blog post we talk about one of our games called Moving Stories which deals with supporting a friend in need.
Affective computing systems provide our machines access to our emotions. This might sound unsettling at first, but I argue that we can use affective computing in biofeedback games to gain insights about our emotions that would be hard to come by otherwise.
The relationship between our bodies and our minds is incredibly complex, and one of the most profound examples of this interaction may very well be the phenomenon of emotions. In keeping with this month's theme - Listen to Your Body - we will take a short trip down Emotion Lane and shed a little bit of light on what emotions are and how they may arise.
To finish this month's theme on mindsets Anouk Tuijnman will share her experience with her New Year's resolution and why this year she was able to stuck with it.
It’s 2018, and January is traditionally the time when people make an attempt to incorporate new lifestyle changes into their daily routine. But who are the people who most often make successful new year’s resolutions? It all has to do with mindset.