Welcome to Hei-Lab

HEI-Lab mission is rooted on the human-context interaction paradigm that looks into human behavior and its contexts interchangeably. Our mission is to converge Psychology and Videogame knowledge into a transdisciplinary scientific platform aimed at studying human behavior within this interactive view. Digital technology, shaped after Psychology principals and created by engineering processes, is HEI-Lab’s signature, offering new psychological research and intervention opportunities. Such opportunities are still to exist in a consolidate fashion in the Portuguese context. Our aim is thus to conduct research on applied Psychology through digital systems. These systems (smart environments comprising virtual, augmented and mixed reality apps) will mimic physical and mental environments optimizing the human-context relationship and providing a deeper insight on this interrelation. Such approach will move from the classical stimulus-organism-response model to the innovative stimulus-technology-organism-technology-response model, from which higher scientific and intervention standards can be achieved. The intersection between technology, and psychology will then be used to test models of human behavior (focusing on psychological processes underlying various forms of ab/normal behavior and well-being across the lifespan) and create new 3Ts (technological therapeutic/intervention tools) to be applied to the contexts of clinical/health, social/organizational, and justice/forensic psychology.