The combination of the colors of ancient mandala art, with advanced computing techniques and brain sensing, can lead to new ways to help people achieve vigilance.
And mandala is geometric formations of the forms whose origins date back to Buddhist traditions, and the coloring of the forms of mandala is increasingly common as a way for people to try to "mental vigilance", which is a way to help people improve their mental health and well -being..
Researchers of human and computer from the University of Lancaster have developed a new preliminary model that can monitor people's brain signals while coloring mandala and producing actual time on a peripheral display to represent vigilance levels.
Researchers, specialists in designing new computing technologies to help people, believe that systems such can be developed to help learn and train concentrated mental focus techniques and help people deal with stress, depression and other emotional effects and health disorders.
In the first part of their studies published today in the journal "Human Intestation", the researchers conducted interviews with experienced Mandala practitioners to know the special qualities of Mandala coloring, and how they can be used to achieve vigilance, and build the initial model on their findings.
The initial model, called "Anima", includes a tablet device for users to color the forms of mandala, and the EEG headphone can be worn..
And when users coloring a digital mandala, using a pen, on the home screen, the EEG headphone monitors brain signals and measures vigilance levels, then readings are represented on the terminal screen as new additional colors, and based on four colors that were initially identified by the user, howeverWith changes in saturation and brightness, the most accurate colors are vigilance periods, while the most brighter colors represent the periods in which the user lost focus or became dispersed..
"Understanding EEG's headphones and capturing it effectively through the design is not a trivial process, and it was important that the colors that appear on the peripheral screen, which were separated from the main screen, were vague and accurate.In order to provide users ’ability to monitor mental alertness publicly, but not in a way that distracts them from the same coloring..