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Body Matters: Exploration of the Human Body as a Resource for the Design of Technologies for Meditation

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Publication date1/07/2020
Host publicationDIS '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherACM
Pages533–546
Number of pages14
ISBN (print)9781450369749
<mark>Original language</mark>English
EventDesigning Interactive Systems DIS 2020 - Eindhoven, Netherlands
Duration: 6/07/202010/07/2020
https://dis.acm.org/2020/

Conference

ConferenceDesigning Interactive Systems DIS 2020
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityEindhoven
Period6/07/2010/07/20
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Conference

ConferenceDesigning Interactive Systems DIS 2020
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityEindhoven
Period6/07/2010/07/20
Internet address

Abstract

Much research on meditation has shown its significant benefits for wellbeing. In turn, there has been growing HCI interest for the design of novel interactive technologies intended to facilitate meditation in real-time. In many of these systems, physiological signals have been mapped onto creative audiovisual feedback, however, there has been limited attention to the experiential qualities of meditation and the specific role that the body may play in them. In this paper, we report on workshops with 24 experts exploring the bodily sensations that emerge during meditation. Through material speculation, participants shared their lived experience of meditation and identified key stages during which they may benefit from additional aid, often multimodal. Findings emphasize the importance of recreating mindful physical sensations during moments of mind-wandering; in particular for supporting the regulation of attention through a range of embodied metaphors and haptic feedback, tailored to key transitions in the meditation process.

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© ACM, 2020. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in DIS '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, (2020) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3357236.3395499