Just breathe: In-Car interventions for guided slow breathing

被引：77

作者：

Paredes, Pablo E. ^{[1
,2
]}

Zhou, Yijun ^{[3
]}

Al-Huda Hamdan, Nur ^{[4
]}

Balters, Stephanie ^{[5
]}

Murnane, Elizabeth ^{[2
,6
]}

Ju, Wendy ^{[6
]}

Landay, James A. ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Radiology Department, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Department, 3155 Porter Drive, Room 1222, Stanford,CA,94304, United States

[2] Computer Science Department, Stanford University, 353 Serra Mall, Stanford,CA,94305, United States

[3] Center for Computer Research in Music Acoustics, Stanford University, 353 Serra Mall, Stanford,CA,94305, United States

[4] Media Computing Group, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

[5] Richard Birkelandsvei 2b 7034, Trondheim, Norway

[6] Information Science, Cornell Tech., 2 West Loop, New York,NY,10044, United States

来源：

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies | 2018年 / 2卷 / 01期

关键词：

Machinery; -; Automobiles;

D O I：

10.1145/3191760

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摘要：

Motivated by the idea that slow breathing practices could transform the automobile commute from a depleting, mindless activity into a calming, mindful experience, we introduce the first guided slow breathing intervention for drivers. We describe a controlled in-lab experiment (N=24) that contrasts the effectiveness and impact of haptic and voice guidance modalities at slowing drivers breathing pace, which is a known modulator of stress. The experiment was conducted in two simulated driving environments (city, highway) while driving in one of two driving modes (autonomous, manual). Results show that both haptic and voice guidance systems can reduce drivers breathing rate and provide a sustained post-intervention effect without affecting driving safety. Subjectively, most participants (19/24) preferred the haptic stimuli as they found it more natural to follow, less distracting, and easier to engage and disengage from, compared to the voice stimuli. Finally, while most participants found guided breathing to be a positive experience, a few participants in the autonomous driving condition found slow breathing to be an unusual activity inside the car. In this paper, we discuss such considerations, offer guidelines for designing in-car breathing interventions, and propose future research that extends our work to on-road studies. Altogether, this paper serves as foundational work on guided breathing interventions for automobile drivers. 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.

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