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Evaluating a Personalizable, Inconspicuous Vibrotactile(PIV) Breathing Pacer for In-the-Moment Affect Regulation

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Andero Uusberg,

Horia Margarit,

Katherine Isbister,

Keith Marzullo,

James J. GrossAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376757

Published: 23 April 2020 Publication History

Abstract

Given the prevalence and adverse impact of anxiety, there is considerable interest in using technology to regulate anxiety. Evaluating the efficacy of such technology in terms of both the average effect (the intervention efficacy) and the heterogeneous effect (for whom and in what context the intervention was effective) is of paramount importance. In this paper, we demonstrate the efficacy of PIV, a personalized breathing pacer, in reducing anxiety in the presence of a cognitive stressor. We also quantify the relation between our specific stressor and PIV-user engagement. To our knowledge, this is the first mixed-design study of a vibrotactile affect regulation technology which accounts for a specific stressor and for individual differences in relation to the technology's efficacy. Guidelines in this paper can be applied for designing and evaluating other affect regulation technologies.

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The supplementary document was meant to provide 1) a short summary of PIV along with a figure of haptic shape and explanation of what recommended analysis we were referring to in PIV++; 2) a short background review on xgboost regressor and hyperopt package, and further explanation of the model for those interested in reproducibility of our work; (3) a list of Q&A that reviewers have brought up such as whether the intervention change the breathing pattern, whether the treatment and control groups were balanced, and etc.

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Evaluating a Personalizable, Inconspicuous Vibrotactile(PIV) Breathing Pacer for In-the-Moment Affect Regulation
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI design and evaluation methods
    2. Interaction devices
      1. Haptic devices

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