ZENse - Supporting Everyday Emotional Reflection

Abstract

Abstract. Healthcare benefited greatly from the trend of self-quantification. However, emotional states and psychological health are more elusive and defy description by simple sensor data. In this paper we show how a user oriented design process resulted in ZENse, a wearable prototype for digitally supporting ideas of Positive Psychology, a psychological approach to help patients with mental disorders. A conducted user study shows promising results on the idea and the design. Despite it being only a small explorative study with healthy participants, we found that the prototype triggers situations and interactions that are known to have a beneficial effect on mental well-being.

A learning and development with collaborative note- taking model for enhancing the future higher education students’ workforce skills in socio-emotional regulation and grit based on a web 5.0 approach

“…Shu et al (2018) have brought up the idea of emotion recognition through physiological signals and emotion models. For example, Löw, Gad-El-Hak, Ganhör, and Tellioglu (2015) make the learner reflect on their emotions through ZENse -a prototype used to support positive psychology development by using the personal monitoring and feedback systems. Moreover, several researchers (György & Watson, 1999;Pellerin & Lecours, 2015) explained the idea of "social-biofeedback model," which indicates sharing emotion expressive displays with caregivers to increase emotional self-awareness and control.…”

“…Several reserachers developed the prototype on the emotion detection, Löw et al (2015) developed the ZENse prototype with the small explorative study. There were 5 participants with the age of 17-59 years experienced the prototype testing.…”