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Project LeadIsabela GranicCategoryResilienceProject statusPreparation
Bloombox: A Toolkit for Creating Transformative Tech
Creating digital tech—whether it be videogames or apps—that makes a real impact on human flourishing is hard! Luckily, at the GEMH Lab we have amassed many lessons learned, tips, tricks and caveats over the years of our existence. All of which we aim to bring together in the Bloombox: a toolkit for creating transformative tech.
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Isabela Granic
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Hanneke Scholten
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Nastasia Griffioen
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Ken Koontz
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Jeanine Jennings
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Project LeadAbele MichelaCategoryBehavior RegulationProject statusWriting Dissertation
DUST: Decisions Under Stress Training - A Biofeedback Training in Virtual Reality for police officers
The work of a police officer can be seen as an evolutionary paradox: in places and situations where most people would fall prey to survival instincts of self-preservation, police officers ought to act calm, with proportionality and benevolence. 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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Jacobien van Peer
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Erik van den Berge
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Isabela Granic
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Project LeadNastasia GriffioenCategorySocial MediaProject statusPreparation
XCAVO: Digital Explorations
Digital media are designed to serve many different functions: socialising, working, building relationships, as well as playing and being entertained. In this project, we seek to understand the impact of different features of digital media, and help youth align what they value and love with what they do on digital platforms, in order to increase wellbeing and coherent identity development.
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Nastasia Griffioen
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Isabela Granic
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Hanneke Scholten
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Ken Koontz
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Hiromitsu Morita
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Project LeadAniek WolsCategoryResilienceProject statusWriting Dissertation
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.
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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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Project LeadNastasia GriffioenCategorySocial MediaProject statusCompleted
Social Media & Mental Health
Social media are immensely popular, and - as it happens - a dense source of social information. In this project, we investigate what sort of information and experiences young people encounter on these social media, and how these things relate to their mental wellbeing, as well as how young people's momentary wellbeing relates to their social media behaviours.
Project Team-
Nastasia Griffioen
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Isabela Granic
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Hanneke Scholten
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Anna Lichtwarck-Aschoff
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Jeanine Jennings