' Calm Flow '
Artist: Qiwei Zhang
Year: Jun 2020
Research:
Explore the user experience and technical path when connecting brainwave and installation.
"Chaos Flow" is the first project in the series of "FLOW" with brainwave interaction, exploring the interaction possibilities for brainwave and installation.
Selected for Art & Design Education FutureLab Exhibition
Individual Award of the 5th Think Youth New Media International Competition
The first AME film and television project graduation online exhibition
Excellent Graduation Project and was collected from the University
Description
This is an interactive installation for visualizing brainwaves. Sometimes we are hard to relax and we could not distinguish our mood level. The aim of this project is to offer a user a calm experience and bring their inner peace.
Data is processed and re-imaged through a kinetic digital sculpture. The user learns that the calmer they become, the calmer the sculpture device becomes.
Let participants face their hearts,
Seek peace and try to heal.
Concept
· More than 100 kinds of physiological activities are controlled by the biological clock, resulting in high and low tides of physiological activities. ---Biological Clock
· When the weather turns sunny, our mood will be better. On long-term rainy days, people are easy to get upset and anxious and lost their minds in dealing with things. ---Michael Persinger
· Psychology: Meditation is one of the most effective ways of psychological counseling. It can make your mood peaceful, reduce your agitation and help to control your mood reasonably.
· The National Academy of Sciences, “sitting still” can help to motivate brain activities. It significantly affects areas in the brain that are responsible for regulating emotions and happiness, so that the negative emotions such as depression, anger, inferiority, fear, and so on, are reduced.
· In the 1920s, two scholars from Edinburgh, Scotland, found that people blink more frequently when they felt anxious or depressed when they were studying the relation between eye blink frequency and psychological state.
Technical Path
Test Progress
At the beginning of the test, the participants were obviously curious about the device and foundthat its movement was related to themselves. They began to look for a way to control.
During the test, we observed the changes in brain waves by observing the changes in the device. When electronic music is played, the frequency of brainwaves is much more stable and keeps in an exciting mood than in a silent environment.
When the participants were reminded to relax or when the white noise is played, the relaxation degree of brain wave increased significantly, approaching the most relaxing state.
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