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Project LeadNastasia GriffioenCategoryResilienceProject statusPreparation
Excavo: Realigning Your Digital Life
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.
Project Team-
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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Joanneke Weerdmeester
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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.
Project Team-
Abele Michela
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Jan Brammer
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Karin Roelofs
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Isabela Granic
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Jacobien van Peer
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Marieke van Rooij
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Ken Koontz
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Erik van den Berge
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Evan Hirsch
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Project LeadBabet HalberstadtCategoryResilienceProject statusRecruitment
Reducing Stress Through Virtual Social Support
People with large social networks on average live longer, happier, less stressed lives. We can potentially leverage video games and virtual spaces to increase the experience of social support and impact daily stress and anxiety. Therefore, this project aims to show that virtual social support can lower stress, and potentially impact stress coping behaviours.
Project Team-
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 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.
Project Team-
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 LeadNastasia GriffioenCategoryDepressionProject statusData Collection
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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Marieke van Rooij
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Anna Lichtwarck-Aschoff
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