embodiment, interactivity, digital venues: from mindfulness to music making
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Embodiment, Interactivity, Digital Venues: from Mindfulness to Music Making
Paula Gardner, PhDOCAD University
Mobile Lab
Aesthetic Experiments
• Aesthetics of mindfulness• How to train into mindfulness• Biofeedback (stimuli responds
to body measures)• Therapeutic benefits• Mobile applications?
Role of biofeedback?
• Mindful acceptance (of depression and anxiety)
• Value audit• Self-design of therapies (repeat stories, funny
voices of stories, leaves on a stream)– Repetition– Mobile devices
Participatory mindfulness research
• With Trillium Health Centre professionals:– Self-recorded features
(voice, voice effects, ambient sound)
– Self recorded leaves on a stream (one’s own story; serpents on the boat)
– One’s story, personally visualised
Possible Applications of mindfulness work to MacGrid
• Co-located training in mindfulness– Community respatialised; reach Sims /disability
communities– Teaching Instructors/therapists how to use via
Sims communities– ACT psychologists working across Canada via
colocated MacGrid space
Body Editing- User friendly,
programmable interface; web-based
- gesture and location to effect
- Scaled interventions: training, musical collaboration, dance improv
- Applications: for ability/disability
Body Editinghttp://vimeo.com/53832181
Possible Applications of our work to MacGrid
• Co-located or Sims located example of usefulness of the interface for– Performance– music creation– Dance– Possible applications in disabilty communication
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