In this study, we examined the effect of mindfulness meditation facilitated by human-robot interaction (HRI) on brain activity. EEG signals were collected from two groups of participants; Meditation group who practiced mindfulness meditation with a social robot and Control group who only listened to a lecture by the robot. We compared brain functional connectivity between the two groups by...
Mindfulness is the state of paying attention to the present moment on purpose and meditation is the technique to obtain this state. This study aims to develop a robot assistant that facilitates mindfulness training by means of a Brain Computer Interface (BCI) system. To achieve this goal, we collected EEG signals from two groups of subjects engaging in a meditative vs. nonmeditative human robot...