Reconnecting the body and the mind: Technology to support mindfulness for stress

Abstract

Mindfulness meditation has the potential to help practitioners cope with their stress. Currently, projects often use corrective feedback models to help people understand when they are out of a mindfulness state. My dissertation uses research by design to build a technology intervention for mindfulness meditation that adopts a strategy of gently guiding and supporting the user's in-the-moment experience of practising meditation through a natural soundscape that responds to the user's brainwave activity collected from the Muse EEG Headset.