A Serious Game to Battle Depression.
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Abstract
This multidisciplinary project aims to develop a mobile serious game – Horizon: Resilience – as an intervention for patient suffering from depression, the most common mental disorder globally. The game is based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and intends to map therapeutic principles – such as Behavioral Activation (BA), motivation for change and cognitive flexibility – to game mechanics and gameplay. As such, as players progress in the game, they undergo an ecological momentary intervention in a playful way, which teaches them coping strategies, stimulates behavioral change and an active lifestyle. Once the game is fully developed, a validation with real patients under guidance of a therapist is foreseen.
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