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Breathing is a natural and important exercise for human beings, and the right breath method can make people healthier and even happier.i-m-Breath was developed to assist users in learning of abdominal breath, which used Respiration Girth Sensors (RGS) to measure user’s breath pattern and provided visual feedback to assist in learning abdominal breath. In this paper, we tried to study the effect of biofeedback mechanism on learning of abdominal breath. We cooperated with College of Medicine in National Taiwan University to take the experiments to explore whether the biofeedback mechanism affect the learning of abdominal breath. The results of the experiments showed that i-m-Breath could help people in improving the breath habit from chest breath to abdominal breath, and in the future the system will be used the hospital. Finally, this study is important for providing a biofeedback mechanism to assist users in better understanding of his breath pattern and improving the breath habit.
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Yu, MC., Chen, JS., Chang, KJ., Hsu, SC., Lee, MS., Hung, YP. (2011). i − m − Breath: The Effect of Multimedia Biofeedback on Learning Abdominal Breath. In: Lee, KT., Tsai, WH., Liao, HY.M., Chen, T., Hsieh, JW., Tseng, CC. (eds) Advances in Multimedia Modeling. MMM 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6523. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17832-0_51
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