Abstract
Across borders, people face numerous life stresses, resulting in difficulties regulating emotions and accumulating negative emotions. Meditation is an effective way to enhance the mind, attention, help alleviate emotional stress, and increase happiness, but traditional meditation methods have limitations. This study aims to explore integrating immersive virtual reality (VR) technology into the meditation experience and propose principles for designing VR-assisted meditation systems. The research evaluates the current applications of meditation and VR in the therapy and mental health domains through literature review. It also adopts a semi-structured interview approach to understand experts' actual perspectives on the applications. Results demonstrate that VR technology significantly enhances meditation immersion, and combining VR with traditional meditation holds high potential. Based on the analysis results, this study proposes a set of five key principles for designing VR-assisted meditation systems: the principle of attention guidance, situational design principle, interaction feedback principle, progressive principle, and personalization principle. These principles aim to maximize the facilitative effect of virtual reality on the meditation experience and provide guiding principles and recommendations for system development and design applications in this field. The research outcomes are expected to promote innovative VR meditation solutions that can help people alleviate emotional stress, cultivate emotional regulation abilities, and promote overall mental health. By leveraging immersive VR technology thoughtfully integrated with meditation practices, this study paves the way for novel interventions to improve psychological well-being.
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Nian-Hao Chen, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Wen-Shan Chang, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
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Conference: ACAH2024
Stream: Media Arts Practices: Television
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Chen N., & Chang W. (2024) Design Principles for Integrating Mindfulness Meditation Into Immersive Virtual Reality Experiences ISSN: 2186-229X – The Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities 2024 Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 613-628) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-229X.2024.54
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-229X.2024.54
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