Pain & coping

Sweet sort

Chronic-pain researchers want ways to practice switching strategies. Sort sweets, discover the rule and adapt when it changes: cognitive flexibility becomes the game.

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THE IDEA / Hybrid Games

The challenge explores cognitive flexibility in a pain-resilience context: can repeated practice help a person shift strategy instead of staying with an unhelpful rule?

Sweet Sort presents changing sorting patterns. The player tests a rule, reads the feedback and adapts. The team demonstrated the game interaction; any effect on pain or longer-term coping requires clinical study.

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