Breathing based immersive interactions for enhanced agency and body awareness: a claustrophobia motivated study

Iddo Yehoshua Wald; Amber Maimon; Lucas Keniger De Andrade Gensas; Noémi Guiot; Meshi Ben Oz; Benjamin W. Corn; Amir Amedi

doi:10.1145/3544549.3585897

Breathing based immersive interactions for enhanced agency and body awareness: a claustrophobia motivated study

Iddo Yehoshua Wald, Amber Maimon, Lucas Keniger De Andrade Gensas, Noémi Guiot, Meshi Ben Oz, Benjamin W. Corn, Amir Amedi

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Abstract

This work explores utilizing representations of one's physiological breath (embreathment) in immersive experiences, for enhancing presence and body awareness. Particularly, embreathment is proposed for reducing claustrophobia and associated negative cognitions such as feelings of restriction, loss of agency, and sense of suffocation, by enhancing agency and interoception in circumstances where one's ability to act is restricted. The informed design process of an experience designed for this purpose is presented, alongside an experiment employing the experience, evaluating embodiment, presence, and interoception. The results indicate that embreathment leads to significantly greater levels of embodiment and presence than either an entrainment or control condition. In addition, a modest trend was observed in a heartbeat detection task implying better interoception in the intervention conditions than the control. These findings support the initial assumptions regarding presence and body awareness, paving the way for further evaluation with individuals and situations related to the claustrophobia use case.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2023 - Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450394222
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3585897
State	Published - 19 Apr 2023
Externally published	Yes
Event	2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023 - Hamburg, Germany Duration: 23 Apr 2023 → 28 Apr 2023

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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Conference	2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Hamburg
Period	23/04/23 → 28/04/23

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Keywords

agency
breathing
claustrophobia
embodiment
embreathment
negative cognitions
presence
respiation
sense of control

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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Wald, I. Y., Maimon, A., Keniger De Andrade Gensas, L., Guiot, N., Ben Oz, M., Corn, B. W., & Amedi, A. (2023). Breathing based immersive interactions for enhanced agency and body awareness: a claustrophobia motivated study. In CHI 2023 - Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 59 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3585897

Wald, Iddo Yehoshua ; Maimon, Amber ; Keniger De Andrade Gensas, Lucas et al. / Breathing based immersive interactions for enhanced agency and body awareness : a claustrophobia motivated study. CHI 2023 - Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2023. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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Breathing based immersive interactions for enhanced agency and body awareness: a claustrophobia motivated study. / Wald, Iddo Yehoshua; Maimon, Amber; Keniger De Andrade Gensas, Lucas et al.
CHI 2023 - Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2023. 59 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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Breathing based immersive interactions for enhanced agency and body awareness: a claustrophobia motivated study

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