TY - CONF TI - Sonic Cradle: designing for an immersive experience of meditation by connecting respiration to music AU - Vidyarthi, Jay AU - Riecke, Bernhard E. AU - Gromala, Diane T3 - DIS '12 AB - Sonic Cradle is a chamber of complete darkness where users shape a peaceful soundscape using only their respiration. This interactive system was designed to foster a meditative experience by facilitating users' sense of immersion while following a specific attentional pattern characteristic of mindfulness. The goal of Sonic Cradle is twofold: first, to trigger the proven effects of mindfulness on stress, and second, to help teach and demystify the concept of meditation for users' long-term benefit. This paper presents the design phase of the project, starting by theoretically grounding the initial concept. We then discuss 15 co-design sessions which provided informal conceptual validation and led to several concrete design iterations aimed at balancing users' perceived sense of control. The presented approach to designing an interactive stress management system can be considered research through design, as it also resulted in a novel theoretical framework for the psychology of media immersion which has implications for a wide range of research areas. C1 - New York, NY, USA C3 - Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems (ACM DIS) Conference DA - 2012/// PY - 2012 DO - 10.1145/2317956.2318017 DP - ACM Digital Library SP - 408 EP - 417 PB - ACM SN - 978-1-4503-1210-3 ST - Sonic Cradle UR - http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2317956.2318017 Y2 - 2012/07/03/02:38:26 KW - Riecke KW - Riecke_2012 KW - biofeedback KW - conferencePapers KW - design KW - diane-gromala KW - immersion KW - jay-vidyarthi KW - mindfulness KW - music KW - persuasion KW - psychology KW - research through design KW - self-regulation KW - sonic-cradle KW - sound KW - stress ER -