Project Number
- 297
Title
- Meditation Chamber
Description
- Biofeedback-driven virtual environment for visual, auditory, and tactile meditation therapy.
Contact
- Diane Gromala
Affiliation
- Georgia Institute of Technology
Address
- School of Literature, Communication, and Culture
- Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center
- 686 Cherry Street
- Atlanta, Georgia 30317
- Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center
- diane.gromala@lcc.gatech.edu
WWW
Year
- 2001
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 2001 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "Meditation and relaxation are well established as helpful in treating a variety of ailments. The Meditation Chamber demonstrates how biofeedback-driven visual, auditory, and tactile stimuli can create, guide, and maintain meditation and relaxation experiences."
- "The virtual environment's design is based on current clinical best-practice techniques used for training and support of clients through a meditation or guided relaxation experience, such as biofeedback electromyography, progressive muscle relaxation, guided meditation, and mindfulness meditation. We have explored various kinds of visual and audio experiences to evaluate which are most effective in promoting these relaxation techniques."
Sight
- graphics workstation, head-mounted display
Sound
- headphones, amplified sound
Touch
- tactile feedback input/output devices
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 207 - bio-feedback / bio-control
Secondary
- 103 - sense cue (vis,aud,tac/ff/mo,olf,tast)
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
Last updated: 5 Jul 2002
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