Last night, I attended the Applications class led by our department’s chair, Red Burns. The guest speaker was Linda Stone, who spoke about a range of topics, but it seems her main current interests include sleep and breathing (and how they relate to physiological responses, specifically the vagas nerve), which correlates directly with my idea to make a sleep assistance experience from a couple nights ago for Rest of You. Her presentation highlighted some previous ambitions I had forgotten about and helped me realize a broader, more significant context for this project — something like breathing awareness for the improvement of quality of life. I also think it needs to be potentially cool, fun, sexy… Looking forward, “quality of life” is really a phrase that I think ties together the work I want to do, as it relates to the connections between attention, emotion, and coincidentally, breathing. In short, her perspective helped me gain a greater perspective on my perspective. Thanks, Linda! In her talk, she notes books, projects, other ideas for further investigation:
A fellow ITP student has posted notes on ITPedia as well. Thanks Aaron!
