DiMEN Fellowship Lecture 2025 with Dr Wanda Spahl

Date/Time
Date(s) - 01/07/2025
11:00 - 12:00

Location
Universität Potsdam - Campus Golm

DiMEN Fellowship Lecture 2025 with Dr Wanda Spahl in cooperation with GamKi Wer-Wie-Was ELSA HUB

Ethics at Play: A Roadmap for the Development of Serious Games for the Mental Health of Young People

Digital gamified interventions are increasingly being discussed as a solution for young people’s mental health problems. The talk presents the prototype of an empirically grounded, principle-based ethics roadmap that provides ethical guidance for developers as an interactive, adaptable tool.

It is being developed as part of the Horizon Europe project ASPbelong, which is developing a collaborative augmented reality app to promote mental health among young people. The roadmap contains explanations of key ethical principles and examples of good practice in three areas: (i) the role and responsibility of (co-)developers, (ii) the design of game mechanisms and (iii) utilisation issues.

Dr Wanda Spahl is a social scientist. Her research deals with health policy and care practices, with a focus on marginalised groups and digital technologies. She has published a scoping review on gamification and mental health in JMIR Serious Games. She is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biomedical Ethics and Healthcare Ethics, Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, Krems, Austria.

From 2018 to 2022 she was a university assistant at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna (dissertation ‘From Medical Care to Citizenship’). She is currently a Digital Medical Ethics Network Fellow at the Junior Professorship for Medical Ethics with a focus on digitalisation, University of Potsdam.

You can find her detailed research profile here: https://kris.kl.ac.at/en/persons/wanda-spahl

About the DiMEN-Fellowship

The DiMEN Fellowship aims to give outstanding young researchers the freedom to explore new topics in digital health ethics. In doing so, fellows are free to choose the goals of their stay. Be it the completion of a chapter for a new book, the first steps towards a new topic area, the search for new cooperation partners for the next proposal or the proposal itself. As part of their fellowship, DiMEN Fellows give a public lecture, reporting on their work during their stay in Potsdam or Tübingen.

Registration and Venue

The event will take place in a hybrid format. You can find us on site at the University of Potsdam in Potsdam Golm, House 62 (H-Lab) Room 1.01, or you can participate via Zoom.

For the Zoom link, please register here: https://digitalmedicalethics.net