The Resonance Pod: Applying Haptics in a Multi-Sensory Experience to Promote Relaxation Through Breathing Entrainment

Shor, Daniel; Ruitenburg, Yvon; Boere, Willemijn; Lomas, Derek; Huisman, Gijs

doi:10.1109/whc49131.2021.9517165

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“…The system can also shift the intensity of light and colour (and potentially a range of other effects like sound and scent) to create atmospheric priming states, shifting an agent's emotional experience (Canepa et al, 2023) 3 . Haptics can be deployed in similar ways, using soft textures, temperature, and rhythms to entrain breathing patterns effective for anxiety reduction (Shor et al, 2021), or modulating the frequency of vibration in haptic feedback systems to elicit different emotion responses (van der Maden, Shor & Lomas, 2020). More speculatively, the system could use lighting, sound, and haptics to reflect Utto's internal states (like heart rhythm), thereby putting him within his own body and training interoceptive accuracy, which can reduce symptoms of anxiety and potentially ease symptoms of a range of mental health problems (Garfinkel et al, 2015;Quadt et al, 2021;Nord, 2022).…”

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Extending Minds, Shifting Boundaries: ambient technological environments as extended allostatic control

White,

Clark,

GUÉNIN--CARLUT

et al. 2024

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This article applies the thesis of the extended mind to ambient smart environments. These systems are characterised by an environment, such as a home or classroom, infused with multiple, highly networked, streams of smart technology often working passively in the background, learning about the user and operating without an explicit interface or any sensorimotor engagement from the user. We analyse these systems in the context of classical extended mind work, characterised by conditions such as “trust and glue” and phenomenal transparency, and find that these conditions are ill-suited to describing our engagement with ambient smart environments. We then draw from the active inference framework, a theory of brain function which casts cognition as a process of uncertainty minimisation, to develop a version of the extended mind grounded in a process ontology, where the boundaries of mind are understood to be multiple and always shifting. Given this more fluid account of the extended mind, we argue that ambient smart environments should be thought of as extended allostatic control systems, operating more or less passively and invisibly to support an agent’s biological capacity for minimising uncertainty over multiple, interlocking timescales. Thus, we account for the functionality of ambient smart environments as extended systems, and in so doing, provide a markedly new version of the classical thesis of extended mind.

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confidence: 99%

Extending Minds, Shifting Boundaries: ambient technological environments as extended allostatic control

White,

Clark,

GUÉNIN--CARLUT

et al. 2024

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Ambient smart environments: affordances, allostasis, and wellbeing

White,

Miller

2024

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In this paper we assess the functionality and therapeutic potential of ambient smart environments. We argue that the language of affordances alone fails to do justice to the peculiar functionality of this ambient technology, and draw from theoretical approaches based on the free energy principle and active inference. We argue that ambient smart environments should be understood as playing an'upstream' role, shaping an agent's field of affordances in real time, in an adaptive way that supports an optimal grip on a field of affordances. We characterise this optimal grip using precision weighting, and in terms of allostatic control, drawing an analogy with the role of precision weighting in metacognitive processes. One key insight we present is that ambient smart environments may support allostatic control not only by simplifying an agent's problem space, but by increasing uncertainty, in order to destabilise calcified, sub-optimal, psychological and behavioural patterns. In short, we lay an empirically-grounded theoretical foundation for understanding ambient smart environments, and for answering related philosophical questions around agency, trust, and subjective wellbeing.

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Shape2Vibe: A Tangible Tool for Vibrotactile Co-Design with People with Deafblindness

Van Rooyen,

Huisman,

Plaisier

et al. 2024

Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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The Resonance Pod: Applying Haptics in a Multi-Sensory Experience to Promote Relaxation Through Breathing Entrainment

Cited by 3 publications

References 2 publications

Extending Minds, Shifting Boundaries: ambient technological environments as extended allostatic control

Extending Minds, Shifting Boundaries: ambient technological environments as extended allostatic control

Ambient smart environments: affordances, allostasis, and wellbeing

Shape2Vibe: A Tangible Tool for Vibrotactile Co-Design with People with Deafblindness

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