Video games

Main research areas

Video games are no longer just for entertainment. In addition to investigating the effects of video games (e.g. improving visual attention), they are also used as innovative research tools to better understand emotional and motivational processes. In our research area, we focus on the relationship between video games and mental health and use NLP and text mining methods in addition to data from laboratory studies to investigate this relationship. Furthermore, we use physiological parameters to shed light on cognitive, emotional and motivational processes during gameplay.