News on health and wellbeing
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Our Mind Wanders Almost Half of the Time
18th March 2024Why is it that there are so many more conditions for a happier life than before, yet people often continue to focus on negative aspects of life? Michael Vlerick addresses this question in his book, "Waarom we niet gelukkiger zijn" ("Why We Aren't Happier"), providing us with tools to become content individuals within our means.
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Development of facial expressions in virtual human agents can help healthcare and education
10th January 2024Technology, such as computer graphics and machine learning, has helped to develop virtual agents that closely resemble humans in appearance and show increasingly human-like communicative behaviors. In her dissertation, Julija Vaitonyte did research on people’s perceptions of the appearance and behavior of virtual agents.
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Turn it for the better: How can VR help solve the global problem of unhealthy diets?
11th December 2023How can Virtual Reality technology help solve the global problem of unhealthy diets? Rachelle de Vries and her team are developing and evaluating an immersive multisensory VR food environment with 'Smell-e Technology' to research food choice behavior. Watch her presentation at TEDxBreda on this technology and the power of smell.