Digital storytelling and video-game-based mental-health interventions
Strongly committed to enhancing access to care, treatment and client engagement with digital-health-intervention services, HBHL-funded researcher Manuela Ferrari鈥擜ssistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at 缅北强奸鈥攊s developing a unique research program that uses digital narratives, including video-game-based interventions, for mental health treatment and anti-stigma campaigns.
Thanks to HBHL funding (as well as funding from provincial and federal programs, and industry partners), Ferrari was able to set up the Ludic Mind Studio, a digital-media and mental-health studio that explores the role technology plays in mental-healthcare settings. As Ferrari describes it, Ludic Mind is 鈥渁 place where art and science come together.鈥�
Located at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Ludic Mind focuses on three areas of research and development: digital interventions, e-assessment and monitoring and digital education.聽The studio aims to increase ease of access and quality of care for patients, as well as create a new model for mental-healthcare services enhanced by digital technologies.
