Stepwise Feedback Device for Mindfulness via Breathing Condition Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mindfulness training techniques struggle to help users become aware of their natural breathing condition without controlling it, as they often rely on external feedback that can lead to overreliance and difficulty in paying attention to internal states.
Innovation Solution
A feedback device that calculates feature quantities from physical condition data, generates an estimation result, and presents a stimulus in a stepwise manner to help users become aware of their breathing condition without controlling it, allowing for increased awareness of internal states.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If external feedback is provided to guide breathing control, then breathing condition control is improved, but user's ability to pay attention to internal state without controlling it deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of providing continuous external feedback to control breathing, the system inverts the approach by detecting when breathing is abnormal and providing feedback only at those moments. This allows users to practice paying attention to their natural breathing without constant external guidance, thereby improving mindfulness while still providing necessary control support when needed.
2Stability of the object's composition
If continuous feedback is provided to maintain normal breathing, then breathing stability is improved, but user's natural awareness deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses periodic monitoring of breathing conditions and provides feedback only when abnormalities are detected, rather than continuous feedback. This periodic action maintains breathing stability through timely interventions while allowing users to maintain natural awareness during normal breathing periods without external stimulus.
Solution Approach 2:
The system extracts and provides feedback only for abnormal breathing conditions, separating the feedback mechanism from continuous normal breathing. This extraction approach maintains breathing stability by addressing only when needed, while preserving users' natural breathing awareness during normal states by removing unnecessary external feedback.
3Measurement precision
If stepwise increasing stimulus is provided until user notices feedback, then user's attention to feedback is improved, but time to achieve mindfulness deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The feedback stimulus dynamically adjusts its intensity based on the user's response. The system starts with mild stimuli and progressively increases intensity only until the user notices the feedback, then reduces it. This dynamic adjustment achieves accurate feedback detection while minimizing the time required for users to adapt and achieve mindfulness.
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AI summary
A technique which helps users achieve mindfulness is provided. A feedback device includes a feature quantity calculation part which calculates a physical condition feature quantity from physical condition data, an index calculation part which calculates a physical condition index using the physical condition feature quantity, an estimation result generation part which generates physical condition estimation result using the physical condition feature quantity and the physical condition index, a feedback part which presents a predetermined stimulus to the user, as feedback, on the basis of the physical condition estimation result, and a user reaction acquisition part which acquires a user reaction indicating that the user has noticed the feedback and in which the feedback part presents the stimulus, as feedback, in the form of increasing strength in a stepwise manner during a period from when the user's physical condition estimation result shows an abnormality for a predetermined period until the user notices the feedback, and presents the stimulus, as feedback, in the form of increasing or decreasing the stimulation in a stepwise manner in accordance with the user's physical condition estimation result during a period from when the user notices the feedback until the user's physical condition estimation result returns to normal for a predetermined period.