Research projects
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Detour
Detour is a mobile intervention to help young people quit smoking. Detour can be used as a game to distract from cravings, for goal making and monitoring, and as a platform for social support.
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Culture and health communication
Assessing differences in message characteristics, responses to the message, and (predictors of) health behaviour among three generations of Turkish-Dutch citizens in The Netherlands.
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So Cool
This project investigates how children with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) perceive and interpret their social world compared to children who do not have PTSD symptoms.
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Exercise Enhances
With this project, we investigate whether exercise enhances depression care as usual.
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Diversity and full partnership in helping children and young people with multiple communicative disabilities and their communication partners
Development of guidance for culturally sensitive assistance in supported communication interventions for children and young people with multiple communicative disabilities.
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Opportunities and challenges in digital reading comprehension
For young people, reading from a variety of digital sources has become the norm. Are children digital natives for whom this is second nature, or are they unable to focus their attention, preventing them from understanding texts in depth?
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Exploring the dynamic relationships between early cognitive, numerical and literacy development
Exploring the dynamic relationships between early cognitive, numerical and literacy development: A longitudinal study from kindergarten to second grade.
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VMBO Sportlab
In the research project vmbo sportlab, a consortium of young people, practitioners and researchers will provide insights and knowledge about how to tackle inactivity among VMBO students and get them playing sport and exercising into later life
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Hybrid Human-AI Regulation
This project focuses on the development of a ‘Hybrid Human-AI Regulation System’ (HHAIR system), which teaches 10- to 14-year-olds self-regulation skills. This will allow them to learn with support from adaptive or self-adaptive learning tools.
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2in1
How does one child actually acquire and use two different languages? The 2in1 project examined how a bilingual child’s languages affect each other and the circumstances under which this occurs.
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The Understanding Coach
Patients with memory loss often need more support as their condition worsens. The Understanding Coach project is developing a compassionate AI-powered virtual human tool that is aimed at improving these patients’ quality of life.