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Project LeadAnouk PoppelaarsCategoryResilienceProject statusPreparation
Facing the Challenge Together: a Social Game for Emotional Resilience
Our research aims to transform young people’s mental health by developing and testing a social game for resiliency when facing stress events. Working in collaboration with the Award winning studio Aardman Animations, we want to harness the important mental health implications of both social support and mindsets, to develop a fun and engaging intervention.
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Anouk Poppelaars
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Maaike Verhagen
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Isabela Granic
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Ken Koontz
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Project LeadJan BrammerCategoryGamingProject statusPreparation
Control Over Automatic Action Tendencies Under Threat: A Biofeedback Training in Virtual Reality
Fast and accurate decision making in threatening situations is vital for police officers on duty. However, under threat, people tend to react impulsively and lack cognitive control. This is why police officers need to train control over their responses to threat as much as possible. To enable this, we develop a virtual training environment with real-time biofeedback. We combine virtual reality and biofeedback to create a personalized, realistic training experience, while honing state-of-the-art technology and psychophysical theory.
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Abele Michela
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Jan Brammer
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Karin Roelofs
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Isabela Granic
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Evan Hirsch
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Project LeadNastasia GriffioenCategoryDepressionProject statusPreparation
Information Sampling in Depression
In this project, we aim to take a closer look at the way in which information is being sampled and integrated in individuals suffering from or at risk for depression. Since human beings are only able to perceive and process a limited amount of information, we have evolved to sample parts of information instead and attempt to draw accurate and workable conclusions based on the sample available to us. We have reason, however, to think that this process may be affected in depression, and aim to find out how exactly using methods such as behavioural computational modeling.
Project Team-
Nastasia Griffioen
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Isabela Granic
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Marieke van Rooij
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Ken Koontz
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Wil Cunningham
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Project LeadBabet HalberstadtCategoryResilienceProject statusPreparation
Creating a Feeling of Social Support in Virtual Reality
People with large social networks on average live longer, happier, less stressed lives. We can potentially leverage virtual reality to increase the experience of social support and impact daily stress and anxiety. Therefore, this project aims to pinpoint which aspects of virtual social interaction are needed to convey a sense of social support.
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Babet Halberstadt
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Isabela Granic
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Marieke van Rooij
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Maaike Verhagen
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Ken Koontz
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Erik van den Berge
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Project LeadAniek WolsCategoryGamingProject statusData Collection
Nonspecific Factors in Video Games for Mental Health
More and more games are designed to promote mental health. If these games are found to be effective, it is important to investigate which factors are responsible for the improvements in mental health. Most often, this type of research focuses on the specific clinical techniques that were designed into the game. However, from the clinical literature it is known that, for instance, expectations, motivation, and one’s mindset about the malleability of symptoms play a major role in positive intervention outcomes. In my project I aim to investigate these nonspecific factors and examine how we can manipulate these factors in order to optimize video games for mental health.
Project Team-
Aniek Wols
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Isabela Granic
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Anna Lichtwarck-Aschoff
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Tom Hollenstein
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Marlou Poppelaars
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