Rebeca Macedo Mendes has a Degree in Psychology (2011), and a Master's in Clinical and Health Psychology (2013) at the University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal. She developed a professional practice as an effective member of the Order of Portuguese Psychologists between 2014 and 2021 when she enrolled in the PhD in Multimedia in Education, at the Department of Education and Psychology and Department of Communication and Art, University of Aveiro. She is developing her research project, entitled “A Digital Game-based Model Intervention Proposal for Mental Health Promotion”, supported by a research grant from the DigiMedia – Digital Media and Interaction Research Centre, Department of Communication and Art, University of Aveiro, and the Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal, since 2023. Rebeca has 5 published articles, that she has presented at International Conferences: HCI International 2023 (Denmark), Game-On 2023 (Ireland), HEAd’2023 (Valencia), Video Games 2024 (Portugal), and e-Society 2025 (Portugal). She has 2 databases published in Harvard Dataverse. Has received 2 best paper awards, one at the 24th Annual International Conference Game-On, in Ireland (Carlow), with the co-authored paper “Mental Health and Digital Games: A Comprehensive Qualitative Review” (Mendes, Ribeiro & Veloso, 2023), and another at the 23rd International Conference e-Society 2025, in Portugal (Madeira, Funchal), with the co-authored paper “Digital Platforms and Mental Health: Utility and usability assessment of the Skye platform” (Mendes, Veloso, Sena, Guerra, Teixeira & Luís, 2025). She has organized 5 events and participated in 23. She co-supervised 3 MSc dissertations in Digital Game Development, 4 graduation students in Multimedia and Communication Technologies, and mentors 1 Integrated Master's Degree in Medicine student, all at the University of Aveiro. Her research focuses on the area of Social Sciences with emphasis on Psychology, Media and Communications, and Educational Sciences.