TY - GEN
T1 - AromaCue - A scent toolkit to cope with stress using the 4-7-8 breathing method
AU - Lin, Zilan
AU - Kunze, Kai
AU - Ueki, Atsuro
AU - Inakage, Masa
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is also partly supported by JST CREST Grant No. JPMJCR16E1.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2020/2/6
Y1 - 2020/2/6
N2 - In this paper, we present AromaCue, an initial design for a scent-based toolkit to cope with stressful situations using scent conditioning. The AromaCue toolkit consists of two parts: A breath training device using multiple stimuli and a wearable scent-emitting device (with a stress ball as an activator). Scent can trigger emotional memories. In the initial design, we utilized the properties of various scents as retrieval cues for consciousness breathing. In a comparative experiment, eight participants showed a significant heart rate decrease several minutes after a stressor (the Stroop test) when a scent cue was present, but not without it. One week of user study revealed significant improvement on Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21) scores. Therefore, AromaCue can help users to cope with stress.
AB - In this paper, we present AromaCue, an initial design for a scent-based toolkit to cope with stressful situations using scent conditioning. The AromaCue toolkit consists of two parts: A breath training device using multiple stimuli and a wearable scent-emitting device (with a stress ball as an activator). Scent can trigger emotional memories. In the initial design, we utilized the properties of various scents as retrieval cues for consciousness breathing. In a comparative experiment, eight participants showed a significant heart rate decrease several minutes after a stressor (the Stroop test) when a scent cue was present, but not without it. One week of user study revealed significant improvement on Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21) scores. Therefore, AromaCue can help users to cope with stress.
KW - Scent conditioning
KW - Scent-Assisted learning
KW - Scent-based notification
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U2 - 10.1145/3374920.3374940
DO - 10.1145/3374920.3374940
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85082505205
T3 - TEI 2020 - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction
SP - 266
EP - 272
BT - TEI 2020 - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 14th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI 2020
Y2 - 9 February 2020 through 12 February 2020
ER -