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Can a Technology Teach Meditation? Experiencing the EEG Headband InteraXon Muse as a Meditation Guide

Caroline Stockman

International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) April 24, 2020 DOI: 10.3991/ijet.v15i08.12415 (opens in new tab)

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Characteristics Qualitative study Peer reviewed
Sample size 6
Population Purposive sample of participants who trialled a meditation device
Duration Three weeks
Topics Meditation
Key findings Users valued personalization and adaptivity in technology-guided meditation training, which were crucial for satisfaction and continued use.

Abstract

Mobile and wearable technology now offers new avenues for technology-supported meditation practice and learning. Through a qualitative-dominant con-vergent parallel design, this study explored new empirical findings on the human perception of such technology-guided meditation training. A purposive sample of six participants trialled the device in several sessions during three weeks. Post-use, they commend the device for prompting self-guided learning. They highlight the importance of personalisation and adaptivity in educational technology, befit-ting Western pedagogical thought. Though these are guiding principles in current technology development, as they are believed to improve learning efficiency, they also prove crucial to user satisfaction and continued use of these technologies of the self.

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A qualitative study of mindfulness‐based cognitive therapy for depression Participants in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in a mental-health context 2001 Qualitative study n = 7
Effortless awareness: using real time neurofeedback to investigate correlates of posterior cingulate cortex activity in meditators' self-report Meditators 2013 Qualitative study using grounded theory methodology

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