EEG Study of Dasa Aksara Yoga and Improved Focus on Distance Learning Student

Abstract

The pandemic prevention measure of social distancing makes Indonesia higher Education system undergo a rapid transformation of distance learning. However, the sudden changes also come with its own unique problem The effectiveness of online learning as a medium of study is an old debate among academia. The approach's effectiveness varies from field to field and from one experiment to another. One problem that seems consistent among the research is fluctuating attention among participants. This research explore the potential to use of an ancient Balinese breathing technique known as Dasa Aksara pranayama. This technique that combines the visualization technique and the breathing exercise has existed since the mid-nineteen century and was developed by Balinese monks. This research wants to gather the empirical evidence of the benefit of the technique using EEG monitoring and machine learning. We do a comparative study between the one group which is not receive the dasa aksara meditation treatment and another group which receive one. The end of the result concludes that the breathing technique succeeded to improve the attention level of the participant on average of 22.85% and the software is well received among the participant with the result of usability testing yield average point of 3.65 on a scale of 4.