{"title":"Effect of Simulating Breathing Movements as Physical Contact with Unspecified Someone on Fear or Anxiety","authors":"Shunsuke Yanaka, Motofumi Hattori, Takayuki Kosaka","doi":"10.3756/artsci.16.75","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we proposed the concept to alleviate fear or anxiety by reproducing the sensation of being with someone and developed Breath Chair. We evaluated our system. Score of STAI was lower and fingertip temperature were higher with simulated breathing than without, revealing a significant difference. These evaluation results suggested that subjects’ fear or anxiety decreased as a result of simulating breathing.","PeriodicalId":170764,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Society for Art and Science","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Journal of the Society for Art and Science","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3756/artsci.16.75","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In this paper, we proposed the concept to alleviate fear or anxiety by reproducing the sensation of being with someone and developed Breath Chair. We evaluated our system. Score of STAI was lower and fingertip temperature were higher with simulated breathing than without, revealing a significant difference. These evaluation results suggested that subjects’ fear or anxiety decreased as a result of simulating breathing.