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Sentient Spaces: Interpreting Biofeedback into Environmental Systems to Mitigate the Severity of Physiological Symptoms in Anxiety Disorders
Sentient Spaces: Interpreting Biofeedback into Environmental Systems to Mitigate the Severity of Physiological Symptoms in Anxiety Disorders
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Richter-Lunn, Katarina
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While anxiety disorders remain the most pervasive mental illness in the United States, few therapeutic solutions have incorporated strategies for dealing with both cognitive and physical symptoms. This is particularly challenging due to the often context-driven trigger of panic and the rapid and exponential onset of such physiological symptoms. With technological advancements for real-time physiological measurements becoming increasingly precise, along with new research highlighting their relationship to cognitive state, there lies great potential for current forms of treatment to be accompanied by real-time alterations to the qualities of our built environment. Sentient space is positioned at the intersection of psychophysiology, cognitive psychology, and environmental design, to put forth a study proposal that questions how spatial systems such as light, temperature, and air quality can be informedby individuals’ physiological signals to, in turn, provide real-time relief to the physical symptoms associated with anxiety disorder.
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2023-03
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