Pervasive Computing Paradigms for Mental Health
9th International Conference, MindCare 2019, Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 23–24, 2019, Proceedings
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Open AccessExploring students’ acceptance and continuance intention in using immersive virtual reality and metaverse integrated learning environments: The case of an Italian university course
Immersive virtual reality (IVR) and Metaverse applications are gaining attention in the educational field, showing potentials in transforming traditional learning methods by supporting active and experiential ...
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Open AccessSavoring life during pandemic: an online intervention to promote well-being in emerging adults
Savoring, that is the ability to create and increase positive emotions, represents a promising approach to enhance subjective well-being (SWB) in emerging adults. This controlled study aims to investigate the ...
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The Silence of Art: Investigating the Emotional Experience of a Virtual Museum by Facial Expression Analysis
Art is a fundamental part of human experience. Today the fruition of art is often mediated by new technologies such as virtual environments reproducing museums and expositions, and even more during the COVID-1...
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Promoting Positive Emotions in Older Adults: A Self-help Relational Savoring e-Intervention
Promoting positive emotions in older adults appears to be a path to support healthy aging and prevent mental disorders such as depression. To reach this goal, relational savoring (RS) appears to be a promising...
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The role of individual characteristics in predicting decisional conflict for patients with prostate cancer (PCa): preliminary results
The principal aim of the study was to investigate the role of individual characteristics in decisional conflict of patients with prostate cancer (PCa) in order to identify risk and protective features. An obse...
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Measurement of Creativity
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Promoting Wellbeing in Pregnancy: A Multi-component Positive Psychology and Mindfulness-Based Mobile App
Pregnancy involves important changes for women of all ages: it is a time of physical and psychological change. Women may experience anxiety and negative emotions, which can negatively influence their wellbein...
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Engaging Elderly Breast Cancer Patients Through an e-health Intervention: A Case Series Study
The aging population increases the number of new diagnoses of breast cancer and women of all ages experience psychological stress for possible treatment related side effects. To prepare elderly women diagnosed...
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Assessing the Emotional State of Job Applicants Through a Virtual Reality Simulation: A Psycho-Physiological Study
Job interview is one of the most frequently used methods to assess candidates for employment and it often evokes feelings of anxiety and distress. The principal aim of this study is to use a VR simulation expe...
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Ageing Positively with Digital Games
Active ageing is the process of optimizing health, social participation and security in order to enhance the quality of life of older individuals. Building on the paradigm of Positive Technology, we argue that...
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A preliminary investigation about the relationship between well-being and fertility status in different menstrual cycle phases
The present study aims at exploring whether the level of well-being vary as a function of fertility status in different phases of the ovulatory cycle. We investigated the multidimensional well-being, including...
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Open AccessExploration of virtual body-representation in adolescence: the role of age and sex in avatar customization
The malleable nature of the self led researchers to investigate the meaning of virtual identity by exploring virtual self-representation through avatars and its association with users’ identity. The present st...
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Hel** Women with Breast Cancer to Cope with Hair Loss: An e-SIT Protocol
The emerging convergence of technology and health care is offering new methods and tools to help people cope with stressful upcoming events. To address the distress of chemotherapy and of alopecia in particula...
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No Man Is a Monkey Island: Individual Characteristics Associated with Gamers’ Preferences for Single or Multiplayer Games
Recent literature suggests that video games and serious games may be used to promote prosocial behavior and social abilities. Among several important open issues, a critical question regards what features of v...
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Presence-Inducing Media for Mental Health Applications
Presence inducing media have recently emerged as a potentially effective way to provide general and specialty mental health services, and they appear poised to enter mainstream clinical delivery. However, to e...
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Toward a validation of cyber-interventions for stress disorders based on stress inoculation training: a systematic review
New advanced technologies have recently emerged as a potentially effective way for delivering stress management techniques. Specifically, the stress inoculation training (SIT) represents a validated approach t...
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Measurement of Creativity
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An Open-Source Virtual Reality Platform for Clinical and Research Applications
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in clinical and research applications of virtual reality (VR). However, the adoption of this approach is still limited by the high costs of software devel...
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A timewise kinematic method for satellite gradiometry: GOCE simulations
We have defined new algorithms for the data processing of a satellite geodesy mission with gradiometer (such as the next European mission GOCE) to extract the information on the gravity field coefficients with...
