Publications by authors named "Mads K Pedersen"
Rapid individual cognitive phenotyping holds the potential to revolutionize domains as wide-ranging as personalized learning, employment practices, and precision psychiatry. Going beyond limitations imposed by traditional lab-based experiments, new efforts have been underway toward greater ecological validity and participant diversity to capture the full range of individual differences in cognitive abilities and behaviors across the general population. Building on this, we developed Skill Lab, a novel game-based tool that simultaneously assesses a broad suite of cognitive abilities while providing an engaging narrative.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhysical inactivity is responsible for 7-10% of all premature deaths worldwide. Thus, valid, reliable and unobtrusive methods for monitoring activities of daily living (ADL) to predict total energy expenditure (TEE) is desired. Multiple methods exist to quantify TEE, but microelectromechanical systems (MEMSs) are the only method, which has shown promising results and are applicable for long-term monitoring in the field.
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- A remote interface was developed to control and optimize the production of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) using two methods: a theoretical algorithm (RedCRAB) and a gamified platform involving 600 citizen scientists.
- Participants engaged in both local and global search strategies, benefiting from a mix of high-performing and low-performing players to avoid getting stuck on suboptimal solutions.
- The study shows that citizen scientists can effectively tackle abstract problem representations, suggesting that gamification could be applied to a broader array of scientific challenges.
Humans routinely solve problems of immense computational complexity by intuitively forming simple, low-dimensional heuristic strategies. Citizen science (or crowd sourcing) is a way of exploiting this ability by presenting scientific research problems to non-experts. 'Gamification'--the application of game elements in a non-game context--is an effective tool with which to enable citizen scientists to provide solutions to research problems.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Assessment of co-morbid personality disorders in substance use disorders may lead to important insights concerning individual patients. However, little is known about the potential value of routine personality disorder assessment in a clinical context.
Methods: Patients are adults with past-year substance dependence seeking treatment at a centralized intake unit for substance abusers in the City of Copenhagen.
Background: Brief screening instruments for co-morbid personality disorders could potentially have great value in substance abuse treatment settings.
Methods: We assessed the psychometric properties of the 8-item Standardised Assessment of Personality - Abbreviated Scale (SAPAS) in a sample of 58 methadone maintenance patients.
Results: Internal consistency was modest, but similar to the original value (alpha = 0.