Check out the paper in the recent issue of IMWUT: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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.

I had a few people whose profiles I learned from Twitter, then found yours by scrolling through who they followed and seeing who I recognized.

On a personal note, this project concludes my research at Georgia Tech after three years of development and experiments involving many students in GT Computing. Going forward, I'll be sharing work on more health-focused technology, including another paper that just got published.

If that sounds interesting, check out the paper in IMWUT's recent issue:
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Or the public PDF on my website:
tangemicioglu.com/files/papers...

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.

Our approach significantly sped up learning the sequence of notes in piano. Across proficiency levels, participants were able to reach mastery two days earlier when using the glove.

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.

Early studies showed that even people with no experience could play musical sequences, and later complete songs, with just vibrational instructions. Now, for the first time, we show that PHL works outside the lab and can be used with conventional piano practice.

The principle behind this is an approach we call passive haptic learning (PHL). PHL has been studied for over 10 years in my former group at Georgia Tech. Here's a video on CNN from 14 years ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEdr...

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.

Thanks for including me! I would also recommend @sachinpendse.bsky.social and @dadler.bsky.social for the list.