Rooted Growth – A VR Game About Being a Tree
Rooted Growth is a VR game running on Oculus Quest 2 that I created during the 2023 Global Game Jam. The idea of the event was to create a game over the weekend corresponding with …
A year of Pandemic with Ameliate
Together with mental hardships and lifestyle adjustments we gained some ‘extra’ time. These times brought moments to reflect, to forcefully be taken away from the dynamic flow of life, to discover something new about ourselves, …
Design Bootcamp with Ameliate
We ran a 2-days design bootcamp to generate ideas for digital mental health. We raised questions like how to integrate mental health practices into a daily routine? How to support mental health practices with technology? …
The Empty Couch
This past summer, at the (first) height of the COVID pandemic in the United States, the New Yorker published an interesting look at how therapy, therapists, and clients had evolved when they were forced to go entirely remote and digital: The New Theatrics of Remote Therapy.
Future Psychology
Since I’m speaking about our company and psychological technology at the Psychology and Future Perspectives Congress organised by the psychology students’ association of Leiden University, I figured I would jot down some thoughts here as …
Can Virtual Reality Be Used in Therapy? – A Video Review
YouTube Review by Ava Mason Can Virtual Reality Be Used in Therapy? Short answer – yes. Long answer – in several different ways. If you’re not in the mood to scour through several papers on …
What is AR/VR?
A 1-minute Guide Augmented Reality Augmented reality refers to a form of extended reality over what we see. Augmented reality can be displayed with a smartphone for example. The smartphone app recognises a surface or …
The Vastaamo Controversy
A Finnish e-health company has been under scrutiny because their patients’ data was hacked and their users blackmailed by threats of leaking their personal information. Apparently the security measures Vastaamo undertook were insufficient, which is …
Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a therapeutic framework within psychology, with first instances as early as in the 1950s and 1960s (Ellis, 1957; Beck, 1960). It focuses on changing an individual’s cognition and behaviour through a …