Proceedings of the 2022 2nd International Conference on Computer Technology and Media Convergence Design (CTMCD 2022)

Feasibility and Acceptability of Using Smartphone App Headspace to Study Meditation Through Digital Media

Authors
She Lyu1, *
1Visual Communication Design and Digital Media Art Department, Sichuan University of Media and Communications, Chengdu, 611745, Sichuan, China
*Corresponding author. Email: lyushe@outlook.com
Corresponding Author
She Lyu
Available Online 17 December 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-046-6_82How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Digital Media; Application Design; Meditation App; Smartphone; User Research
Abstract

Recently with the development of digital media and information technology, digital communication has been gradually becoming a main way how people communicate with others. This research will investigate the smartphone app Headspace on feasibility and acceptability to evaluate how people learning meditation through mobile apps. Meditation is a practice of training one’s attention and focuses to increase calmness, physical relaxation, and psychological balance, even as an alternative treatment for illness. This research employs a mixed-research method that incorporates the methodology of user research, and it will use Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) for data analysis. According to the feasibility and acceptability test of “5E”, this smartphone app Headspace can efficiently provide users a meditation guidance and practice services. By the end of this research, results showed that digital media now is playing a significant role on influence people’s thoughts and providing a new form and direction on how people do their everyday practice.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 2nd International Conference on Computer Technology and Media Convergence Design (CTMCD 2022)
Series
Advances in Computer Science Research
Publication Date
17 December 2022
ISBN
10.2991/978-94-6463-046-6_82
ISSN
2352-538X
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-046-6_82How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 2nd International Conference on Computer Technology and Media Convergence Design (CTMCD 2022)
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