TranScent in Stillness: Exploring the Feasibility of Using Incense Art with Virtual Reality for Meditation

Lai, Mei-Kei; Chung, Siu Wing

doi:10.1145/3483529.3483535

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“…For example, the VR system RelaWorld provides interactive visual guidance for meditation [33]. The Tran-Scent provides synchronized olfactory sensation besides auditory and visual experience in VR [34]. ZenVR supports an immersive Zen garden and room environment and mentor in VR [18].…”

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Designing Loving-Kindness Meditation in Virtual Reality for Long-Distance Romantic Relationships

Wang,

Mo,

Lee

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia

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Loving-kindness meditation (LKM) is used in clinical psychology for couples' relationship therapy, but physical isolation can make the relationship more strained and inaccessible to LKM. Virtual reality (VR) can provide immersive LKM activities for long-distance couples. However, no suitable commercial VR applications for couples exist to engage in LKM activities of long-distance. This paper organized a series of workshops with couples to build a prototype of a couple-preferred LKM app. Through analysis of participants' design works and semi-structured interviews, we derived design considerations for such VR apps and created a prototype for couples to experience. We conducted a study with couples to understand their experiences of performing LKM using the VR prototype and a traditional video conferencing tool. Results show that LKM session utilizing both tools has a positive effect on the intimate relationship and the VR prototype is a more preferable tool for long-term use. We believe our experience can inform future researchers.

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confidence: 99%