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Mindfulness and technology: traces of a middle way

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posted on 2023-06-09, 06:16 authored by Yoko Akama, Ann LightAnn Light, Simon Bowen
We contemplate paths between form and formlessness as a middle way between digital technology for mindfulness, and mindfulness without digital technology, thereby inviting alternative departure points with interactive systems. In doing so, we step into a contested yet potentially fertile arena to challenge the handling, analysis and reporting of the relationship between mindfulness and technology and the methods used to interrogate it. Through the documenting of the authors’ own creative practices (video, photography, and gardening), material traces and written vignettes of our experiments are presented to stimulate resonances and evoke mindfulness with readers. We also question the form of conference papers to consider how we can best share formless states of being in discussing their relevance for design.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

Designing Interactive Systems

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

Page range

345-355

Event name

DIS 2017 Designing Interactive Systems

Event location

Edinburgh, UK

Event type

conference

Event date

10-14 June 2017

ISBN

978145034922

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  • Engineering and Design Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2017-05-12

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2017-08-30

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2017-05-12

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