Projects
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Project LeadAbele MichelaCategoryBehavior RegulationProject statusCompleted
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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Ken Koontz
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Erik van den Berge
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Isabela Granic
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Project LeadBloombox GroupCategoryDesign ToolsProject statusRecruitment
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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Bloombox Group
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Project LeadBloombox GroupCategoryGamingProject statusData Collection
Play-Based Grieving in Minecraft
Children who experience the death of a parent or sibling can feel isolated and alone in their grief and often lack access to safe, supportive, and developmentally appropriate online settings where they can connect with other peers and caring adults who “get” their grief. ExperienceCraft is a youth-led, online community for grieving children, where they can play, connect, and learn with others who have experienced the death of a caregiver, sibling, or close member of their community.
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Bloombox Group
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Project LeadBloombox GroupCategoryDesign ToolsProject statusPreparation
Sleep Savoring
This project is about providing adolescents living in (or displaced from) Ukraine with the supports and skills required to reduce bedtime rumination, to identify and savor positive experiences that create uplifting feelings, to deploy savoring as a tool to “switch” from negative rumination cycles to positive savoring cycles, and to improve sleep duration and quality.
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Bloombox Group
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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.
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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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