Lotus: Mediating Mindful Breathing

Sibela Chinareva; Jack Jones; Nuha Tumia; Dan Kumpik; Palvi Shah; Aluna Everitt

doi:10.1145/3334480.3382938

Lotus: Mediating Mindful Breathing

Sibela Chinareva
, Jack Jones
, Nuha Tumia
, Dan Kumpik
, Palvi Shah
, Aluna Everitt

Bristol Doctoral College

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Abstract

We present Lotus; an actuated plant-like device designed to guide the user through breathing exercises. The development of Lotus explores whether IoT devices can aid in the practice of mindfulness and reducing stress. Lotus uses heart rate (HR) monitoring to detect high levels of stress and trigger the start of its guided exercises through the movement of its petals. An initial study proved that Lotus may help users to reduce their stress.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI '20
Subtitle of host publication	Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1-7
Number of pages	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3382938
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2020

Keywords

breathing plant
stress production
wellbeing
mindfulness
breathing exercises
metal health
heart rate monitoring

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