Supporting spirtituality through technology
Meditation Lab is a project by artist/designer/innovator Danielle Roberts. Here she works on applications in which technology supports spirituality in order to let people flourish and grow through insight and awareness.
The latest project is Meditation Lab Experimenter Kit. This kit consists of a suit and software. With the kit you can do your own meditation experiments. You can discover how to positively influence your meditation by changing your environment.
Current wearables only measure some variables and often this data is neither complete nor freely available to users. Silence Suit is the first wearable that gives you a comprehensive picture of your physical condition and environmental factors during meditation. You have complete control over your data!
The meditation suit Silence Suit houses 11 sensors which combined measure 18 parameters about your body and the environment. The suit has a wireless connection with the software belonging to it: the Dataserver. It logs, displays and analyses the data. The server is connected to a smart light unit which can change colour during the meditation session. Before and after every session you fill in a questionnaire. A learning algorithm will predict from your answers which type of light is most suitable for you.
High-tech Habit by Danielle Roberts from University of Twente on Vimeo.
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MLEK is being developed as an Open Source project. All code, schematics and patterns will become available so you can:
MLEK wants to grow into a community. Together we can further develop the suit and software and make new applications.
Do you want a suit or do you want to collaborate? Are you a programmer or can you sew? Do you know a lot about electronics or business models? Do you want to take part in meditation experiments? Have you got an idea or question?
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I will take part in the panel discussion during the Specter event. Starting at 5.54 PM on June 21st, coinciding with Summer Solstice, this evening will include an immersive art program as well as a cross-disciplinary dialogue between scholars from different scientific fields, artists, (digital) designers, technologists and healers. The dialogue will serve to map …
On November 21st the official closure of the WEAR Sustain project will take place. Financing from WEAR has made Meditation Lab Experimenter Kit possible. The team is looking forward to presenting the final prototype. We are also very curious to see the results of the other 45 teams. Besides a fashion show of all the …
Meditation Lab Experimenter Kit present in two exhibitions during the DDW. Functional tech-textiles that care Textiles could do so much more than only cover your body. It could keep track of your health, give power to your empty batteries, connects to your environment or give you empowering encouragements. Danielle will be present at 20-10 from …