ExoPranayama: a biofeedback-driven actuated environment for supporting yoga breathing practices
Both breathing and internal self-awareness are an integral part of any yoga practice. We describe and discuss the development of ExoPranayama, an actuated environment that physically manifests users’ breathing in yoga. Through a series of trials with yoga practitioners and expert teachers, we explor...
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| author | Moran, Stuart Jäger, Nils Schnädelbach, Holger Glover, Kevin |
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| description | Both breathing and internal self-awareness are an integral part of any yoga practice. We describe and discuss the development of ExoPranayama, an actuated environment that physically manifests users’ breathing in yoga. Through a series of trials with yoga practitioners and expert teachers, we explore its role in the practice of yoga. Our interview results reveal that biofeedback through the environment supported teaching and improved self-awareness, but it impacted group cohesion. Two practical uses of the technology emerged for supporting breath control in yoga: (1) biofeedback can provide new information about users’ current internal states; (2) machine-driven feedback provides users with a future state or goal, and leads to improved cohesiveness. |
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| spelling | nottingham-325062020-05-04T17:47:49Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32506/ ExoPranayama: a biofeedback-driven actuated environment for supporting yoga breathing practices Moran, Stuart Jäger, Nils Schnädelbach, Holger Glover, Kevin Both breathing and internal self-awareness are an integral part of any yoga practice. We describe and discuss the development of ExoPranayama, an actuated environment that physically manifests users’ breathing in yoga. Through a series of trials with yoga practitioners and expert teachers, we explore its role in the practice of yoga. Our interview results reveal that biofeedback through the environment supported teaching and improved self-awareness, but it impacted group cohesion. Two practical uses of the technology emerged for supporting breath control in yoga: (1) biofeedback can provide new information about users’ current internal states; (2) machine-driven feedback provides users with a future state or goal, and leads to improved cohesiveness. Springer 2016-04-05 Article PeerReviewed Moran, Stuart, Jäger, Nils, Schnädelbach, Holger and Glover, Kevin (2016) ExoPranayama: a biofeedback-driven actuated environment for supporting yoga breathing practices. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 20 (2). pp. 261-275. ISSN 1617-4909 Adaptive Environment; Breathing; ExoBuilding; Physiology; Pranayama; Teaching; Yoga http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00779-016-0910-3 doi:10.1007/s00779-016-0910-3 doi:10.1007/s00779-016-0910-3 |
| spellingShingle | Adaptive Environment; Breathing; ExoBuilding; Physiology; Pranayama; Teaching; Yoga Moran, Stuart Jäger, Nils Schnädelbach, Holger Glover, Kevin ExoPranayama: a biofeedback-driven actuated environment for supporting yoga breathing practices |
| title | ExoPranayama: a biofeedback-driven actuated environment for supporting yoga breathing practices |
| title_full | ExoPranayama: a biofeedback-driven actuated environment for supporting yoga breathing practices |
| title_fullStr | ExoPranayama: a biofeedback-driven actuated environment for supporting yoga breathing practices |
| title_full_unstemmed | ExoPranayama: a biofeedback-driven actuated environment for supporting yoga breathing practices |
| title_short | ExoPranayama: a biofeedback-driven actuated environment for supporting yoga breathing practices |
| title_sort | exopranayama: a biofeedback-driven actuated environment for supporting yoga breathing practices |
| topic | Adaptive Environment; Breathing; ExoBuilding; Physiology; Pranayama; Teaching; Yoga |
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