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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 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 LeadBabet HalberstadtCategoryResilienceProject statusPreparation
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.
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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 LeadGEMH LabCategoryResilienceProject 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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Steven Ma
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