Fien Buelens (MSc) is a researcher and business developer in the People and Well-being research group, research line Psychology and technology. From her expertise, she facilitates the connection between research and practice.
Fien is a master in psychology (clinical and health psychology; and theory and research, KU Leuven). She is very interested in how technology can contribute to (mental) health care. Furthermore, she finds it very important that research can be translated into practice and that there is a connection between practitioners and researchers. She works as business developer and researcher for the research line.
Articles in internationally reviewed scientific journals
Buelens, F., Luyten, P., Claeys, H., Van Assche, E., & Van Daele, T. (2023). Usage of unguided, guided, and blended care for depression offered in routine clinical care: Lessons learned. Internet Interventions, 34, 100670. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.invent.2023.100670
De Witte, N. A. J., Buelens, F., Debard, G., Bonroy, B., Standaert, W., Tarnogol, F. & Van Daele, T. (2022) Handheld or head-mounted? An experimental comparison of the potential of augmented reality for animal phobia treatment using smartphone and HoloLens 2 . Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 4, 2673-4192. https://doi.org/10.3389/frvir.2022.1066996
Buelens, F., Luyten, P., Claeys, H., & Van Daele, T. (2022, June). Dropout and Adherence in an Online Intervention for Self-Help, Guided Self-Help and Blended Care. Study Protocol for Assessing Real-world Data. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences, Leuven.
Van Daele, T., Buelens, F., Best, P., Thomas, C. & Bernaerts, S. (2022, June). 360° video or digital twin VR? Equal sense of presence, different realism. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences, Leuven.