Role: Postdoctoral researcher

Faculty / Department:

• Faculty of Engineering and Architecture - imec UGent / Department of Information Technology - IDLab
  
  

Research Interests: 
Serious Games, Gamification, Personalised Digital Health, Health behaviour change

Short bio:

I am a postdoctoral researcher at IDLab, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Ghent University and imec. My work is focused on leveraging serious games and gamification to enhance healthcare, with an emphasis on personalized interventions and stakeholder empowerment. I aim to streamline the design process of personalized serious games, fostering collaboration among stakeholders by promoting knowledge reuse across disciplines. My work spans the broad field of digital health, addressing diverse use cases such as anxiety reduction in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, physical activity promotion, behavioral change and physical rehabilitation. To do so, I have designed and developed serious games, VR therapy systems, gamified interventions and an ontology for behavior change, working closely with domain experts and end users to ensure impactful and user-centered solutions.