After exploring mind-states in different places at home I wanted to find out what is the best time and the best activity to base a wisdom intervention on. I started logging my own activities using the method of experience sampling. This method lets you check a certain set of variables at random intervals throughout the […]
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Soft Meditation, first prototype
For the past couple of weeks I have been working on the first version of my Soft Meditation piece. This is a performance in which I meditate and live data is transformed into an animated, artistic visualisation. Background For the past year I have been developing, together with a team, Meditation Lab Experimenter Kit. A […]
Relief! The organisational problems reduce
Last week, I was busy with sewing the sketch of the Silence Suit. But I also was busy with the project in my head. I really was wondering how Danielle’s week would pass. Last time she seemed stressed and exhausted because of many organisational problems. So before I came this time I really hoped that […]
Introducing Silence Suit
For over a year I’ve been working on a meditation wearable. It measures biometric and environmental input. Its goals is to use the measurements to improve your meditation and use the data to generate artistic visualisations. The wearable is part of a bigger project Hermitage 3.0, a high-tech living environment for 21st century hermits (like […]
sleepGalaxy: design & calories
I’ve been working on the overall design step by step, alternating between coding and looking. I want to incorporate my calorie intake after 6 PM. I’m not recording the times I ate and I suspect they influence my whole sleep. So the most logical position is to circle all around the “sleep circles”. There is […]
sleepGalaxy: recovery
As I explained in my previous post I find the recovery measurement very useful. It seems a good representation of how rested I feel. It is calculated using RMSSD. The Emfit knowledge base explains it like this: “… For efficient recovery from training and stress, it is essential that parasympathetic nervous system is active, and […]
sleepGalaxy: kick off
Finally, I’ve started to work on a piece that’s been on my mind for almost two years. Ever since I met the nice people from Emfit at the Quantified Self conference. They kindly gave me their sensor in return for an artwork I would make with it. You put the sensor in your bed, go […]
Virtual View: conducting experiment two
Our ideal for the execution of the second experiment was to have 60 participants of 40 years and older. There would be two labs where the experiment would be held in alternating rooms over 3 days. The rooms would be in a quite part of the school as we had quite a lot of disturbance […]
Virtual View: building an experiment
I was very lucky to meet Ilia from Okazolab. When I told him about Virtual View and the research I was planning to do he offered me a licence to work with EventIDE. This is a state of the art stimulus creation software package for building (psychological) experiments with all kinds of stimuli. Ilia has […]
First sonification workshop
From 20 to 24 of November last I took part in the first sonification workshop at OKNO in Brussels. This workshop is part of the European ALOTOF project. I’ll be working with them for the next two years on building a laboratory in the open field and making audio-visualisations of environmental and physiological data. Some […]