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 ...

Advancer Technologies have unveiled their new “USB Biofeedback Game Controller” that allows you to harness the power of electromyography to control video games with your muscles. The controller uses a ...

The indie scene can be a mixed bag of innovation and rehashing of old ideas. In the case of Flying Mollusk's Nevermind—a biofeedback game that uses sensors to ramp up the game's fear factor based on ...

Boston Children’s Hospital spin-out Mightier has scored an additional $250,000 for its emotional regulation video game program. The new investment was made by Modern Time Group. This additional ...

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 ...

In horror-adventure game Nevermind, your performance is influenced by your emotional state. In one scenario, a kitchen is filling up with milk and you're in danger of drowning unless you figure out ...

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 ...

Nevermind measures your heart rate to tell when you're getting scared -- then ramps up the horror for a truly boot-shaking experience. Video games and biofeedback have been used before as a sort of ...

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 ...

Those gun-show tickets you've been offering out to everyone (that nobody ever takes) can suddenly do a lot more, thanks to Advancer Technologies. It's developed an Arduino-based plug-and-play ...

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 ...