Projects

Members of the lab are involved in various projects.

Accommodation of emotions during fast decisions. The project aims to create a synthetic emotion mediator that can be used to train emergency professionals to work in high stressful situations

Assessment a of a disease management system with medical devices in renal disease. For patients with chronic illness, self-management is the key to determine clinical outcome. This project introduces a new home-based medical device for measuring the creatinine level, by providing patients with options for home-based blood pressure measurements, and by providing a website for feedback and eLearning.

Computer Support for anxiety disorder treatment at home (CATCH). People with social phobia have a strong fear of social situations. This project focuses on the design and evaluation of a virtual reality exposure therapy system for the treatment of social phobia in the clinic and at home.

SleepCare: Persuasive technology for personalized sleep coaching. People with insomnia have problems with falling or staying asleep. This project examines various aspects of computerized sleep coaching.

Multi-Modal Memory Restructuring System (3MR). This system is designed with the intention to support trauma-focused psychotherapy that focuses on restructuring and relearning of past events.

Virtual eCoaching and Storytelling technology for post-traumatic stress disorder treatment. This project studies how effectively and in what manner a stand-alone, multi-modal memory restructuring (3MR) system and Internet-based guided self-therapy version could be used for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder patients.

Virtual reality and phobias. Virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) has been put forward as an effective mean to treat individuals with anxiety disorders. The focus of this project is both on the VR technology involved and clinical effect of this type of therapy.

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Research conducted at Delft Mental Health Computing Lab focuses on computer support systems for understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and for mental coaching to promote health, well-being and the prevention of illness. It is positioned at the intersection between computer science (including human computer interaction), clinical and health psychology.

Vacancy - student project

Develop an Evaluation Tool for an Ontology on Traumatic Memories

In this project, you’ll be working on all of these aspects. Our goal is to enable a virtual agent to ask trauma patients smart questions about their memories. To do this we use a knowledge base of concepts, an ontology. This ontology should contain information about traumatic experiences, something which clinical psychologists and trauma patients have, but computer scientists generally do not. Your challenge is to develop a tool which can be used by psychologists to evaluate and update ontologies. You’ll be working with psychologists to make sure your tool is user-friendly and do a small experiment to test if your system is able to evaluate and update the ontology. more information

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