Internship Assignment Form University Twente
Title: Designing and testing Virtual Reality for subjective vitality
Type of assignment: MA internship (combination with thesis is possible)
Internal or external: intern: UT & BMSLab
Maximum number of students: 1
Individual collecting of data? Yes
Type of research: design & mixed methods
Description of the assignment:
For your internship and thesis you can participate in a research collaboration between the department of Psychology, Health & Technology and the BMSLab.
Virtual reality is a promising technology to improve well-being since it is fun to use, immerse the user into another world, offers environments for exploring and practicing new behaviors and reactions and is able to effectively change mood states.
In your Internship and probably also in your master thesis you will concentrate on effects and psychological working mechanism that are used in VR applications for the improvement of well-being. You will explore them from a health-psychological perspective and test a VR environment regarding the proposed working mechanisms. You will work together with the BMS lab to uplevel a prototype VR environment to increase subjective vitality and to test its effects and working mechanisms. Your work will be based on the Master thesis work of Lina Bareišytė and build further on her pilot results with this VR environment. You will work together with master students from the other psychology master tracks and eventually with students from software development.
What are we offering? Working with an interdisciplinary team in the BMS Lab
More information: Dr. Christina Bode (c.bode@utwente.nl)
Supervisor: Dr. Christina Bode (UT)