TY - GEN
T1 - Meta Flow Experience
T2 - 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing, UbiComp/ISWC 2023
AU - Peng, Jih Hsuan
AU - Han, Ping Hsuan
AU - Yang, Cheng Ta
AU - Yang, Tung Hua
AU - Chen, Ze Song
AU - Huang, Yi Min
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 ACM.
PY - 2023/10/8
Y1 - 2023/10/8
N2 - This research presents an exploratory study focusing on developing the immersive mindfulness meditation group experience. The primary goal is to observe the impact of Extended Reality (XR) on enhancing people's awareness and cultivating inner tranquility. Previous works have explored the benefit of group meditation and the potential of utilizing multisensory feedback in XR. Our study designs an activity that employs interactive digital art to help the therapist verbally convey the concept of mindfulness meditation through participants' senses, including visual, olfactory, gustatory, auditory, haptic, interoceptive, and proprioceptive perceptions. Unlike the traditional mindfulness meditation experience, the XR experience provides multiple channels for participants to engage in mindfulness, extending beyond mere imagination. By surrounding the therapist's healing script in immersive projection, the experience can stimulate participants in the space in which they exist physically. To collect participant feedback, we did a short questionnaire with 68 responses. The result shows that few attendees would connect the activity with other traditional psychological therapy activities they attended, but most participants indicated that they had a different experience. Like the conventional activity, it brings them a calm and peaceful mind. The study gathered considerations for designing group mindfulness meditation, including participant preparation and selection, the provision of multisensory stimulation, and essential factors when collecting feedback.
AB - This research presents an exploratory study focusing on developing the immersive mindfulness meditation group experience. The primary goal is to observe the impact of Extended Reality (XR) on enhancing people's awareness and cultivating inner tranquility. Previous works have explored the benefit of group meditation and the potential of utilizing multisensory feedback in XR. Our study designs an activity that employs interactive digital art to help the therapist verbally convey the concept of mindfulness meditation through participants' senses, including visual, olfactory, gustatory, auditory, haptic, interoceptive, and proprioceptive perceptions. Unlike the traditional mindfulness meditation experience, the XR experience provides multiple channels for participants to engage in mindfulness, extending beyond mere imagination. By surrounding the therapist's healing script in immersive projection, the experience can stimulate participants in the space in which they exist physically. To collect participant feedback, we did a short questionnaire with 68 responses. The result shows that few attendees would connect the activity with other traditional psychological therapy activities they attended, but most participants indicated that they had a different experience. Like the conventional activity, it brings them a calm and peaceful mind. The study gathered considerations for designing group mindfulness meditation, including participant preparation and selection, the provision of multisensory stimulation, and essential factors when collecting feedback.
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U2 - 10.1145/3594739.3610723
DO - 10.1145/3594739.3610723
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85175481194
T3 - UbiComp/ISWC 2023 Adjunct - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing
SP - 381
EP - 385
BT - UbiComp/ISWC 2023 Adjunct - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 8 October 2023
ER -