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
Motivators from start to end
Contingent reward system motivates patients in a therapy session and from session to session.
Video with exclusive insights
Hyperhero: The therapy that feels like a game
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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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