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Understanding the first person experience of walking mindfulness meditation facilitated by EEG modulated interactive soundscape 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Cochrane, K., Loke, L., Leete, M., Campbell, A., & Ahmadpour, N.
  • 학회/출판사/기관명Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction
  • 출판년도2021
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction
  • 발행사항(pp. 1-17).
  • ISBN/ISSN
  • 소개/요약Walking meditation is a form of mindfulness training, where the act of walking provides a rhythmic meter for attentional focus. Whilst digital technologies to support sitting meditation and walking practices exist, less explored is the first person in-the-moment experience of technology-mediated walking meditation. We present a study of group walking meditation, with and without an interactive rhythmic soundscape modulated by one practitioner’s brainwave data. Six workshops were conducted with novice and advanced practitioners, involving a guided walking meditation with body scan, writing and drawing exercises and a group interview. The analysis yielded themes of shifting state, attention, self-regulation strategy, and immersion and reflection, and insights into how practitioners use sound to synchronize both walking and breathing. We contribute a method for eliciting, and a novel description of, the first person experience of walking meditation, as resources for the design of interactive technologies to support mindfulness practices of walking meditation.