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Embodiment, Interactivity, Digital Venues: from Mindfulness to Music Making . Paula Gardner, PhD OCAD University Mobile Lab. Aesthetic Experiments. Aesthetics of mindfulness How to train into mindfulness Biofeedback (stimuli responds to body measures) Therapeutic benefits
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Embodiment, Interactivity, Digital Venues: from Mindfulness to Music Making Paula Gardner, PhD OCAD University Mobile Lab
Aesthetic Experiments • Aesthetics of mindfulness • How to train into mindfulness • Biofeedback (stimuli responds to body measures) • Therapeutic benefits • Mobile applications?
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 colocatedMacGrid 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
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