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