ADHD DiGA in VR

ADHD therapy for the living room

ADHD VR therapy motivates children to apply psychotherapeutic content to their everyday lives in a playful way. For example, transferring real-life homework tasks into VR allows everyday challenges to be practiced—an essential building block of guideline-based multimodal therapy.

8-13

Age range

~ 40 min 

per session (2x 20 min)

3

months

5

modules in 24 sessions

Our therapy has been developed in close collaboration with leading ADHD Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs). Evidence-based content from established therapy manuals for training organizational skills has been jointly adapted and translated into an immersive virtual reality experience.

Child and adolescent psychotherapist

Prof. Dr.

Anja Görtz-Dorten

Head of the AKiP Institute at the University of Cologne


Psychologist, psychotherapist & author

Prof. Dr. Manfred Döpfner

Former Head of the AKiP Institute at the University of Cologne

70+ families in our community 

  • Regular surveys
  • Feedback groups in Whatsapp
  • Monthly usability tests with patients
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Motivators from start to end

Contingent reward system motivates patients in a therapy session and from session to session.

    • Parents' app as a solution to the export problem

    • 1. Individualisation

        Weekly tasks5 modulesSimulation (e.g. tasks during the morning routine)

    • 2. Therapy progress

        Brainjo ScoreNotificationsInsight into the course of therapy

    • 3. Parental education

        Technical handlingSpecific knowledgeVideo courses

    For the children, the therapy feels like a game

    The therapy’s visual style draws inspiration from popular games like Fortnite and Minecraft. Throughout 24 sessions, patients embark on an epic journey through worlds like Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Early Japan to conquer the Time Pirates.

    AI-Companions for Therapy

    NPCs (non-player characters) that interact with the patient have therapeutic functions.

    Time Pirates

    Time-stealing problems of children

    (e.g. mobile phones)


    Externalisation method

    Chipper GPT 9500

    Takes on the role of a therapist

    

    Explains the tasks & encourages the use of learned strategies


    Agent Quassel

    Has ADHD-typical behavior himself

    

    The children should correct his misbehavior 


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