Tag: breathing

Flow – Control your heart

Flow is an Apple Watch application for relaxation, where you can do breathing exercises to control your heart. The app provides two breathing exercises, one where your heart controls the breathing cycles, the other where you pick a fixed breathing cycle duration. You have a complete feedback of your use of the app, with dashboards for each day, week, month or year. You can see charts with your average amplitude, your average number of breathing cycles or again the time you spent on the app.
You can also find in the app an AMA section, with responses to all questions you can have about how does this work.

The application is available on the Apple Watch app Store.

Echo In Space – Multi Player Biofeedback Game

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Echo in Space is a shared experience where two players can control Echo traveling the space by their breathing. The objective is to catch as many hearts as possible, and to avoid meteorites ! The first player controls the position of Echo (an inspiration and Echo goes up, an exhale and Echo goes down). Moreover, if there is a second player, he can controls the speed of Echo (the faster his breathing, the faster the Echo).

This game has been developed by a team of 5 (3 developers and 2 designers), in 3 days during a Game Jam. The programming language used is JavaScript, and we used PixiJS, an open-source library. The breathing of each player is recovered by a sensor (a breathing belt) who sends data using Bluetooth.

Menu
Intro
Gameplay
Game captures

Finally, the aim of this game is to become aware of your breathing, that you can completely control it and that it affects many things, such as your heart rate, your focus and so on. Moreover, the players can have a real-time biofeedback of their breathing, and they can try to modulate it in a playful way in conjunction with a peer.