Projects
My better self: the use of virtual reality exposure in socially anxious adolescents KU Leuven
Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET) is an effective treatment for anxiety disorders, and its effects generalize to the real world. The majority of anxiety disorders develops during adolescence and VRET has a high potential in this group because of its playful elements and accessible nature. However, research on VRET in young adolescents is scarce. Especially in the group with the lowest age of onset, socially anxious adolescents, VR could ...
Virtually better? Virtual reality exposure for socially anxious adolescents. KU Leuven
Social anxiety disorder typically develops during adolescence. It is a debilitating condition that is associated with significant impairments in day-to-day life. To prevent moderate and subclinical social anxiety to further develop into a full-blown anxiety disorder, effective earlystage interventions that are easily accessible and appealing for adolescents are essential. Exposure by means of virtual reality (VR) technology has great ...
Context-Aware Millimeter Wave Network for Interactive Virtual and Augmented Reality Ghent University
Virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) has arisen as the killer application for future wireless networks. Such applications are expected to require up to several gigabits per second (Gbps) of throughput, as well as millisecond end-to-end latency to enable interactivity. Current wireless local area networking (WLAN) technologies, such as Wi-Fi, cannot attain such high throughputs. However, increasing the radio transmission frequency up to the ...
XR-House: eXtended Reality Home Hasselt University
WaveVR: Context-Aware Millimeter Wave Network for Interactive Virtual and Augmented Reality. University of Antwerp
Fiction or reality? How audiences make sense of movies and series about journalism: a Flemish case study Ghent University
Depictions of journalists in fiction movies and series communicate what journalism is, should, and could be both for journalists and the public. They aid in discursively constructing journalistic roles (Hanitzsch & Vos, 2017), affect the public perception of journalism including the credibility and public trust of journalists (Saltzman, 2005; Painter, 2019), and reproduce gender, sexual and racial stereotypes in relation to journalism ...
Could You Repeat That, Please? Increasing The Quality And Replicability Of Physiological Virtual Reality Research Through A Comprehensive Experimental Framework Ghent University
Virtual reality (VR) experiments are increasingly employed because of their internal and external validity compared to real-world observation and laboratory experiments. Recently, the attention of human behavioural research in VR has focused on the use of psychophysiological signals, such as electroencephalography (EEG) or electrocardiography (ECG). However, the replicability of these research findings is hardly existent due to inconsistent ...
A silenced reality on the way to the United Kingdom: sexual violence in male migrants in transit in Belgium and France Ghent University
Contrary to gender stereotypes portraying male migrants as dangerous, hypersexual and invulnerable, research indicates male migrants face high risks to experience sexual violence. With sexual victimization rates reaching up to 37,20% in male migrants in transit in Morocco, sexual violence seems to be particularly common along the route and in transit. This regularity of male sexual violence has recently been reported in migrants in transit on ...
The experience of reality in psychosis Ghent University
Delusions in schizophrenia are commonly approached as empirical false beliefs about everyday reality. Phenomenological accounts, by contrast, have suggested that delusions are more adequately understood as pertaining to a different kind of reality-experience. To date, however, the specific nature of delusional reality-experience has not been subject to systematic empirical study. It is also unclear how this alteration of reality-experience ...