Sonic Cradle: Designing for an immersive experience of meditation by connecting respiration to music

Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS '12

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 408-417

  Vidyarthi, Jay ^a   Riecke, Bernhard E ^a   Gromala, Diane ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

biofeedback; design; immersion; mindfulness; music; persuasion; psychology; research through design; self regulation; sound; stress

Indexed keywords

IMMERSION; MINDFULNESS; MUSIC; PERSUASION; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF-REGULATION;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BIOFEEDBACK; RESEARCH; STRESSES;

DESIGN;

EID: 84864746100     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2317956.2318017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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