Multimedia-Assisted Breathwalk-Aware System

Breathwalk is a science of combining specific patterns of footsteps synchronized with the breathing. In this study, we developed a multimedia-assisted Breathwalk-aware system which detects user's walking and breathing conditions and provides appropriate multimedia guidance on the smartphone. Th...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on biomedical engineering 2012-12, Vol.59 (12), p.3276-3282
Main Authors: Yu, Meng-Chieh, Wu, Huan, Lee, Ming-Sui, Hung, Yi-Ping
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Algorithms
Awareness
Biological and medical sciences
Breathwalk
Equipment Design
Feedback
Footwear
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Legged locomotion
Meditation
Meditation - methods
Monitoring, Ambulatory - instrumentation
Multimedia communication
multimedia-assisted system
Pilot Projects
Respiration
Sensors
Shoes
Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
smart shoes
Studies
Vertebrates: body movement. Posture. Locomotion. Flight. Swimming. Physical exercise. Rest. Sports
Visualization
Walking - physiology
walking meditation
wearable computing
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Summary:Breathwalk is a science of combining specific patterns of footsteps synchronized with the breathing. In this study, we developed a multimedia-assisted Breathwalk-aware system which detects user's walking and breathing conditions and provides appropriate multimedia guidance on the smartphone. Through the mobile device, the system enhances user's awareness of walking and breathing behaviors. As an example application in slow technology, the system could help meditator beginners learn "walking meditation," a type of meditation which aims to be as slow as possible in taking pace, to synchronize footstep with breathing, and to land every footstep with toes first. In the pilot study, we developed a walking-aware system and evaluated whether multimedia-assisted mechanism is capable of enhancing beginner's walking awareness while walking meditation. Experimental results show that it could effectively assist beginners in slowing down the walking speed and decreasing incorrect footsteps. In the second experiment, we evaluated the Breathwalk-aware system to find a better feedback mechanism for learning the techniques of Breathwalk while walking meditation. The experimental results show that the visual-auditory mechanism is a better multimedia-assisted mechanism while walking meditation than visual mechanism and auditory mechanism.
ISSN:0018-9294
1558-2531
DOI:10.1109/TBME.2012.2208747