A Review of Interactive Technologies as Support Tools for the Cultivation of Mindfulness

Sliwinski, Jacek; Katsikitis, Mary; Jones, Christian

doi:10.1007/s12671-017-0698-x

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“…Nonetheless, such potential is hampered by certain methodological requirements of the mindfulness approach. Indeed, traditional mindfulness protocols (as well as meditation protocols overall) require a rather intense exercise and constant commitment, two aspects that often lead to a gradual decrease of motivation and, consequently, to the suspension of individual practices [68][69][70]. The impact of such limitations might be reduced by the support of external devices that are able to make the practice less demanding and track individual progress over time, thus lowering the requested effort [69].…”

Section: Integrating Meditation and Mindfulness Practices With Body-smentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Further, they are both necessary to attain continuity in exercise. Many technologies developed to support meditation, thus, actually promote motivation by providing tips, sharing of results and experience in dedicated communities, plotting statistics, tracking advances, giving rewards, and setting milestones to reach in practice [69]. Those kinds of explicit, highly-salient and informative sources of information help to maintain practisers' awareness of their progress and advancements, thus fostering commitment and reflective reasoning on the effect of practice in managing automatic processing and unwanted implicit reactions.…”

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Conscious, Pre-Conscious and Unconscious Mechanisms in Emotional Behaviour. Some Applications to the Mindfulness Approach with Wearable Devices

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Conscious, pre-conscious, and unconscious mechanisms are implicated in modulating affective processing in daily activities. Specifically, mental practice fostering awareness and control of affective reactions to external stimuli and stressful events (such as mindfulness and neurofeedback protocols) can be used to improve our ability to manage unconscious negative emotions. Indeed, it is possible to empower self-monitoring and regulation skills, as well as our ability to manage stress and negative emotions coming from everyday events and activities. This can be accomplished, on the one hand, by regularly practicing self-observation and by promoting bodily awareness and an awareness of automatic responses (e.g., uncontrolled affective reactions); on the other hand, by undergoing implicit training protocols that take advantage of brain responses. The present paper elucidates the contribution of both conscious and unconscious levels in emotion regulation and stress management, with a focus on their neural correlates and their role in mindfulness practice and on the potential of body-sensing devices for supporting meditation sessions, for fostering motivation to practice, and for making meditation more appealing and sustainable. We will finally present preliminary evidence on the effect of an intensive technology-mediated meditation protocol based on mindfulness practices and supported by a brain-sensing wearable device. The experimental procedure included three levels of outcome indices: psychometric measures related to perceived stress; neuropsychological and behavioural measures related to cognitive performance; and instrumental measures (resting-state and task-related electroencephalographic markers-EEG-ERPs).

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Section: Integrating Meditation and Mindfulness Practices With Body-smentioning

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Section: Integrating Meditation and Mindfulness Practices With Body-smentioning

confidence: 99%

Conscious, Pre-Conscious and Unconscious Mechanisms in Emotional Behaviour. Some Applications to the Mindfulness Approach with Wearable Devices

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“…In continuing the trajectory laid out in Figure 1 , we seek to understand how immersive, interactive technologies might elicit positive states and support positive change. We found that there exist a few review articles on interactive technologies for supporting mindfulness (Sliwinski et al, 2017 ), transcendence (Mossbridge, 2016 ), and health (Botella et al, 2017 ). However, there does not seem to be comprehensive reviews looking at immersive, interactive technologies in eliciting positive states and supporting positive change.…”

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Immersive Interactive Technologies for Positive Change: A Scoping Review and Design Considerations

2018

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Practices such as mindfulness, introspection, and self-reflection are known to have positive short and long-term effects on health and well-being. However, in today's modern, fast-paced, technological world tempted by distractions these practices are often hard to access and relate to a broader audience. Consequently, technologies have emerged that mediate personal experiences, which is reflected in the high number of available applications designed to elicit positive changes. These technologies elicit positive changes by bringing users' attention to the self—from technologies that show representation of quantified personal data, to technologies that provide experiences that guide the user closer in understanding the self. However, while many designs available today are either built to support or are informed by these aforementioned practices, the question remains: how can we most effectively employ different design elements and interaction strategies to support positive change? Moreover, what types of input and output modalities contribute to eliciting positive states? To address these questions, we present here a state of the art scoping review of immersive interactive technologies that serve in a role of a mediator for positive change in users. We performed a literature search using ACM Digital Library, Web of Science, IEEE Xplore, and Design and Applied Arts Index (beginning of literature—January 1, 2018). We retrieved English-language articles for review, and we searched for published and unpublished studies. Risk of bias was assessed with Downs and Black 26-item QAT scale. We included 34 articles as relevant to the literature, and the analysis of the articles resulted in 38 instances of 33 immersive, interactive experiences relating to positive human functioning. Our contribution is three-fold: First we provide a scoping review of immersive interactive technologies for positive change; Second, we propose both a framework for future designs of positive interactive technologies and design consideration informed by the comparative analysis of the designs; Third, we provide design considerations for immersive, interactive technologies to elicit positive states and support positive change.

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“…Concerning the use of smart mobile devices in the context of mindfulness, recent related works have been presented [18], [19]. Despite the advantages of smart mobile devices, their drawbacks must also be carefully considered [20], [21].…”

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A personalized sensor support tool for the training of mindful walking

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Reichert

John

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2018 IEEE 15th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN)

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A Review of Interactive Technologies as Support Tools for the Cultivation of Mindfulness

Cited by 70 publications

References 30 publications

Conscious, Pre-Conscious and Unconscious Mechanisms in Emotional Behaviour. Some Applications to the Mindfulness Approach with Wearable Devices

Conscious, Pre-Conscious and Unconscious Mechanisms in Emotional Behaviour. Some Applications to the Mindfulness Approach with Wearable Devices

Immersive Interactive Technologies for Positive Change: A Scoping Review and Design Considerations

A personalized sensor support tool for the training of mindful walking

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