Background: Cognitive tasks are typically viewed as effortful, frustrating, and repetitive,
which often leads to participant disengagement. This, in turn, may negatively impact data …

Background Compared to traditional persuasive technology and health games, gamification
is posited to offer several advantages for motivating behaviour change for health and well …

Background There has been a growing interest in the application of gamification (ie, the use
of game elements) to computerized cognitive training. The introduction of targeted …

Background Young people are disproportionately more likely than other age groups to use
substances. The rise in substance use and related harms, including overdose, during the …

Objective: Recently, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) redefined clinical trials to include
any study involving behavioral or biomedical interventions. In line with a general framework …

Background Mobile apps for problematic substance use have the potential to bypass
common barriers to treatment seeking. Ten years following the release of the first app …

Background Cognitive tasks designed to measure or train cognition are often repetitive and
presented in a monotonous manner, features that lead to participant boredom and …

Introduction Measures for controlling antimicrobial resistance are urgently required. We
describe here AntibioGame®, a serious game for improving the training of medical students …

Obesity is partly driven by unhealthy food choices underpinned by cognitive biases,
including approach bias (a tendency to move towards food cues) and delay discounting (a …

Objective Anxiety and depression are highly prevalent disorders in adolescence. They are
associated with deficits in working memory (WM), which also appears to increase …