AWARD YEAR
2021
CATEGORY
Body
GOALS
Good Health & Well-being, Balance Human & Artificial Intelligence
KEYWORDS
Meditation, therapy gamification, neuroscience, well-being, Smartphone App
COUNTRY
Switzerland
DESIGNED BY
Yoann Douillet / ECAL + EPFL
WEBSITE
https://yoanndouillet.com/portfolio/meditationrobotics/
Meditation Robotics
Research project to assist meditation practices through multimodal sensorial support.
The Meditation Robotics research project investigated how to define to what extend a user could be able to interact with an interface during a multimodal meditative experience. In this context, it aimed to specify the most suitable medium and type of interface according to the meditation expertise of the user, as well as other factors such as age or technologic ease.
A multimodal device should adapt to user’s sensations and feelings, furthermore in the specific context of meditation where the user is in a distinctive state that must avoid any unnecessary distraction.
The project ran in two phases.
In phase 1, several user scenarios were tested with various fidelities of user interface prototypes, both digital and analogical.
In phase 2, a smartphone application was developed based on the first learnings, combining pragmatic and hedonic scenarios. In order to evaluate both user interface (UI) and user experience (UX), two summative studies were conducted.