Department: Psychology and Educational Sciences Department

Unit: Digital health, health, well-being

Research group: BDLab Behavioural Design Lab

Email: bgomezz@uoc.edu

Doctor by the Universitat de Barcelona with the thesis El uso de sistemas de reglas abstractas o de reglas sensibles al contenido en la construcción de explicaciones históricas. 2001.

The R&D activities of researcher Beni Gómez-Zúñiga has as its main mission the study of psychological aspects linked to the use of ICT with regard to people's health and quality of life. Her current lines of work are linked to health promotion via the Internet amongst different groups and health conditions (chronic pain, adolescents and the elderly), social media and minority diseases in collective intelligence processes and the relationship between cognitive processes and technological systems. She participates in different activities and projects in collaboration with other institutions and research centres, both national and international, and the results of its research contribute not only to improving people's quality of life, but also to guiding institutions on the use of ICT to promote health, in the widest sense. She is a member of the UOC's BDLab Behavioural Design Lab R&D group.