Nadja Ging-Jehli, PhD (Core Director for Adaptive Intelligence and Mental Health Mechanisms at CDHI) gave an invited talk at the Joint International Conference on Serious Games, where she introduced her new platform, Gearshift Fellowship.

It is a next-generation Supertask paradigm that integrates serious gaming with computational neuroscience, psychiatry, and artificial intelligence. The platform is designed to assess how humans and artificial agents learn when to persist, when to let go, and when to shift strategies as task demands and uncertainty change. These are situations that many people encounter in everyday life and in diverse health contexts.

By using mathematical models to both explain what drives behavioral change and to actively shape how the game responds to each individual, Gearshift Fellowship enables real-time insights into agency, learning strategies, and motivation. This approach opens new pathways for digital phenotyping, personalized mental health interventions, and adaptive training tools by revealing the mechanisms that support flexible and resilient behavior.