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A toolkit to create games, products, and services for human flourishing
Top-3 games
- Flower
- Garden Story
- Plants vs Zombies
Science, design, industry, and stakeholders like teachers, students, clinicians all need to come together for a digital solution to be most effective.
About me
Bloombox seamlessly integrates design and science, serving as a step-by-step guide for your project.
GEMH Lab has worked hard over the past decade to research and create playful video games for the benefit of young people's wellbeing. We have accumulated a vast body of knowledge that we are excited to share, so you can make your vision a success.
Projects I’ve worked on
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CategoryDesign ToolsDate18/07/2022Study/CourseLocation
Bloombox: A Toolkit for Creating Transformative Tech
About the projectCreating 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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CategoryDesign ToolsDate11/10/2023Study/CourseLocation
The Social Healing Project
About the projectThe Social Healing Project sets forth a new paradigm for social healing—one rooted in evidence-based indicators; imagined through holistic, interdisciplinary experience; refined by collaborative building; and made to be used, engaged with, and benefitted from by the public.
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CategoryDesign ToolsDate12/10/2023Study/CourseLocation
Social Noting Pilot Research
About the projectThis project aims to find out if and how participating in Social Meditation–a simple set of out-loud, peer-2-peer, interactive, & trauma-informed protocols–can positively impact wellbeing.
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CategoryDesign ToolsDate12/10/2023Study/CourseLocation
Sleep Savoring
About the projectThis 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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CategoryGamingDate12/10/2023Study/CourseLocation
Play-Based Grieving in Minecraft
About the projectChildren 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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My publications
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Use of the Principles of Design Thinking to Address Limitations of Digital Mental Health Interventions for Youth: Viewpoint
Scholten, H., & Granic, I. (2019). Journal of Medical Internet Research, 21(1), e11528. doi: 10.2196/11528
Author: Hanneke Scholten
Upload date: 06-16-2020
Worked together with
Professor and Chair of the Developmental Psychopathology department in the Behavioural Science Institute; writer; voracious podcast consumer; mother of two upstanding little gamers
Professor at McMaster's University & Co-founder of PlayNice Interactive
Researcher, interdisciplinary work and collaboration, wants to understand the how's and why's, loves her high heels and coffee in the morning, walks and talks too fast.
Assistant Professor at Erasmus MC Sophia Children's Hospital
GEEK, Game designer, artist, producer, anime and video game enthusiast, American football player, and as of recently a newb gardener. I'm pretty much always down for new ventures and experiences - O' ley do it!
Founder of Koontz Interactive
Nerd, is fascinated by the brain even more than your average zombie, into etymology and reading, drawn to anything tech-related, especially artificial intelligence. Wants to explore social tech (such as social media) and how these relate to young people's wellbeing.
Post Doctorate at University of Twente
Design researcher, list maker, photographer and alt print maker interested in the intersection of art and science. In the spring of 2023, I completed my MS in Information Studies at UT Austin where I focused my studies on accessibility and user research and wrote my thesis on accessibility in art museums.
Design Researcher