Breathing with the airflow guide increased workload, but more research is needed on the impact of habit formation and attention.

We found that the airflow guide was able to encourage slower and deeper breathing, but was less effective during harder tasks.

Our system was mounted on a laptop screen to replicate an information work setting in the lab. A fan pulsed on and off at 75% of the breathing rate of its user, and an air nozzle guided a subtle, gentle stream of air to the user's nose.

Guided slow breathing is one of the best ways to stay calm, but typically involves focused effort. Can guided breathing work unconsciously?
In a new paper with Thalia Viranda and Yiran Zhao, we designed the first airflow-based guided breathing system and evaluated its cognitive demands.

Instead of forgetting, participants kept learning between sessions thanks to the effect of the glove. In the future, our team is considering how we can make the gloves robust enough for daily wear and our learning system functional with any piano or keyboard.

We had twenty participants learn two piano pieces for one week each, with and without haptic gloves. They practiced piano at home, in the manner they preferred, and were supported by our web platform giving them performance feedback based on MIDI recordings from a keyboard.

We had study participants wear the gloves and receive vibrotactile sensations mimicking the piano sequence during their daily life: When they were cooking, watching a movie, taking a walk, etc., they continued to learn piano despite not paying attention to the vibration.

What if you could learn to play a new musical piece in just a few practice sessions? In my new paper, we show that using haptic gloves to passively rehearse piano pieces can speed up learning by 49.7%, and negating forgetting between practice sessions.