Gamers up to the challenge must conquer their health and improve their well-being by keeping calm as they navigate haunted houses, overcome obstacles and manage the fight-or-flight response. When ...

Galvanic, a Dublin-based startup, has created a Bluetooth-enabled galvanic skin response sensor that's also a game controller. The product, called the PIP sensor, is designed to help users learn to ...

A game currently under development uses your own anxiety to make its play increasingly horrifying as you get more scared, and it also aims to help people confront their fear. “When it senses that ...

We interviewed ‘Nevermind’ producer Michael Annetta for exclusive insights into the game’s groundbreaking use of biofeedback, and the real-world benefits of its immersive, next-gen technology. Game ...

A new electromyography biofeedback device that is wearable and connects to novel smartphone games may offer people with incomplete paraplegia a more affordable, self-controllable therapy to enhance ...

Mightier, a Boston Children’s Hospital spinout that makes biofeedback video games to help children with emotional regulation, has raised $2.4 million in seed funding. Slow Ventures led the round, with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. We are used to playing video games that employ a certain ...

The input-output dynamic of most games is fairly simple: You steer with a keyboard, gesture, or some other type of gamepad, and the game adjusts the audio or visual output and perhaps vibrates the ...

SimyLife a development team based in Vienna, Austria has created a new biofeedback game controller called the SimyBall which can help with reducing stress, providing relaxation as well as laughter, ...

A video game with biofeedback—aimed at keeping heart rate low during fast-paced play—can help youth learn to regulate their anger, finds a small randomized trial at Boston Children's Hospital. If the ...

Doctors at Boston Children's Hospital have been using a video game that monitors children's heart rates to help them keep their tempers in check. Doctors at Boston Children’s Hospital have been using ...

Sony has filed for another patent, this time for an accessory that can attach to a PlayStation DualShock controller and sense the player’s biometrics such as heart rate or even sweat. In an ...