Affective Sleeve: Wearable Materials with Haptic Action for Promoting Calmness

Papadopoulou, Athina; Berry, Jaclyn; Knight, Terry; Picard, Rosalind W.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-21935-2_23

Cited by 24 publications

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“…In recent years, HCI has witnessed an increasing interest in promoting calmness and emotion (stress) management in daily contexts (Azevedo et al, 2017;Costa et al, 2016;Papadopoulou et al, 2019). Regular respiration training, as a widely recognized beneficial activity, could help people develop healthy breathing habits and contribute to their stress management capability.…”

Section: Respiration Training and Breathing Guidancementioning

confidence: 99%

ViBreathe: Heart Rate Variability Enhanced Respiration Training for Workaday Stress Management via an Eyes-Free Tangible Interface

Hendriks

et al. 2021

International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction

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Slow breathing guiding applications increasingly emerge, showing promise for helping knowledge workers to better cope with workaday stress. However, standard breathing guidance is non-interactive, with rigid paces. Despite their effects being proved, they could cause respiratory fatigue, or lack of training motivation, especially for novice users. To explore new design possibilities, we investigate using heart rate variability (HRV) data to mediate breathing guidance, which results in two HRV-enhanced guidance modes: (i) responsive breathing guidance and (ii) adaptive breathing guidance. These guidance modes are implemented on a soft haptic interface named "ViBreathe". We conducted a user test (N = 24), and a one-week field deployment (N = 4) with knowledge workers, to understand the user experience of our design. The HRV-enhanced modes were generally experienced to reduce tiresome and improve engagement and comfort. And Vibreathe showed great potential for seamlessly weaving slow breathing practice into work routines. We thereby summarize related design insights and opportunities.

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Section: Respiration Training and Breathing Guidancementioning

confidence: 99%

ViBreathe: Heart Rate Variability Enhanced Respiration Training for Workaday Stress Management via an Eyes-Free Tangible Interface

Hendriks

et al. 2021

International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction

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“…Other responsive environments have tried to reflect physiological signals in a dynamic architecture to promote awareness that may lead to slower breathing [33]. In another study, slow vibrations through an engineered sleeve with a pattern similar to calm breathing were generated and found to be capable of positively influencing perceived calmness [27]. To promote a more effortless approach, other researchers have investigated visual and audio oscillating stimuli with the aim to slow breathing of computer users engaged in a reading task.…”

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Studying Personalized Just-in-time Auditory Breathing Guides and Potential Safety Implications during Simulated Driving

Zepf

Haouij

Lee

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

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Driving can occupy a considerable part of our daily lives and is often associated with high levels of stress. Motivated by the effectiveness of controlled breathing, this work studies the potential use of breathing interventions while driving to help manage stress. In particular, we implemented and evaluated a closed-loop system that monitored the breathing rate of drivers in real-time and delivered either a conscious or an unconscious personalized acoustic breathing guide whenever needed. In a study with 24 participants, we observed that conscious interventions more effectively reduced the breathing rate but also increased the number of driving mistakes. We observed that prior driving experience as well as personality are significantly associated with the effect of the interventions, which highlights the importance of considering user profiles for in-car stress management interventions. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → Auditory feedback; Empirical studies in HCI ; • Applied computing → Consumer health.

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“…Although these cases are textile-based augmented biofeedback and took advantage of e-textiles, they have not involved functional bidirectional biofeedback interaction between users and the textiles. Another design case is the Affective sleeve [22], which produces rhythmic tactile movements with warm and slight arm pressure to promote calmness and reduce anxiety. The researcher found that the speed of the sleeve's tactile movements affects the participants' breathing rate and perception of calmness.…”

Section: Affective Smart Textilesmentioning

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Exploring the Design of Interactive Smart Textiles for Emotion Regulation

Jiang

Bhömer

Liang

2020

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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The present study aims to investigate the design of interactive textiles for emotion regulation. In this work we proposed a design which allows users to visualize their physiological data and help regulate their emotions. We used the Research through Design method to explore how physiological data could be represented in four different interactive textiles and how movement-based interaction could be designed to support users' understanding and regulation of their emotional state. After an initial user interview evaluation with several textile prototypes, light and vibration were selected as modalities within the biofeedbackbased interaction. A smart interactive shawl that reacts to changes in emotional arousal was designed to help the users know their emotion and adjust it, if necessary, with the support of electrodermal activity sensor and pressure-based sensors. The results of the second study showed that the smart shawl could help the user to visualize their emotions and reduce their stress level by interacting with it.

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Affective Sleeve: Wearable Materials with Haptic Action for Promoting Calmness

Cited by 24 publications

References 34 publications

ViBreathe: Heart Rate Variability Enhanced Respiration Training for Workaday Stress Management via an Eyes-Free Tangible Interface

ViBreathe: Heart Rate Variability Enhanced Respiration Training for Workaday Stress Management via an Eyes-Free Tangible Interface

Studying Personalized Just-in-time Auditory Breathing Guides and Potential Safety Implications during Simulated Driving

Exploring the Design of Interactive Smart Textiles for Emotion Regulation

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