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TY - JOUR
T1 - MeditAid
T2 - a wearable adaptive neurofeedback-based system for training mindfulness state
AU - Sas, Corina
AU - Chopra, Rohit
N1 - Evidence on publisher pdf The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00779-015-0870-z
PY - 2015/10
Y1 - 2015/10
N2 - A recent interest in interaction design is towards the development of novel technologies emphasizing the value of mindfulness, monitoring, awareness, and self-regulation for both health and wellbeing. Whereas existing systems have focused mostly on relaxation and awareness of feelings, there has been little exploration on tools supporting the self-regulation of attention during mindfulness sitting meditation. This paper describes the design and initial evaluation of MeditAid, a wearable system integrating electroencephalography (EEG) technology with an adaptive aural entrainment for real time training of mindfulness state. The system identifies different meditative states and provides feedback to support users in deepening their meditation. We report on a study with 16 meditators about the perceived strengths and limitations of the MeditAid system. We demonstrate the benefits of binaural feedback in deepening meditative states, particularly for novice meditators.
AB - A recent interest in interaction design is towards the development of novel technologies emphasizing the value of mindfulness, monitoring, awareness, and self-regulation for both health and wellbeing. Whereas existing systems have focused mostly on relaxation and awareness of feelings, there has been little exploration on tools supporting the self-regulation of attention during mindfulness sitting meditation. This paper describes the design and initial evaluation of MeditAid, a wearable system integrating electroencephalography (EEG) technology with an adaptive aural entrainment for real time training of mindfulness state. The system identifies different meditative states and provides feedback to support users in deepening their meditation. We report on a study with 16 meditators about the perceived strengths and limitations of the MeditAid system. We demonstrate the benefits of binaural feedback in deepening meditative states, particularly for novice meditators.
KW - Mindfulness meditation
KW - Mindfulness training
KW - Neurofeedback
KW - Wearable EEG
KW - Aural entrainment
U2 - 10.1007/s00779-015-0870-z
DO - 10.1007/s00779-015-0870-z
M3 - Journal article
VL - 19
SP - 1169
EP - 1182
JO - Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
JF - Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
SN - 1617-4909
IS - 7
ER -