The challenge: Every time you exhale, you tap the iPad screen with one finger. And for every fifth exhalation you tap with two fingers-at least at the beginning level.
Tenacity strengthens selective attention, "the building block for all other kinds of learning," he added. "The self-regulation of at tention lets you focus on explicit goals and resist distraction," a key to success in any domain.
"If we can create a game kids want to play, it will be an efficient way to train attention, given how much time kids spend playing and how naturally it comes to them," says Davidson, who heads the University's Center for Investigating Healthy Minds. "They'll love doing the homework."
Stanford University has a Calming Technology Lab, which fo cuses on gadgets that embed mindful, quieting focus. With one such calmer, "breathware," you wear a belt that detects your breath rate. Should a chock-full inbox trigger what the developer calls "email apnea," an iPhone app guides you through focusing exer cises that calm your breath-and mind.
Stanford's Institute of Design offers a graduate course called "Designing Calm." As one of the teachers, Gus Tai, says, 'A lot of Silicon Valley tech is oriented toward distracting. But with calming tech, we're asking how we can bring more balance to the world."
The challenge: Every time you exhale, you tap the iPad screen with one finger. And for every fifth exhalation you tap with two fingers-at least at the beginning level.
Tenacity strengthens selective attention, "the building block for all other kinds of learning," he added. "The self-regulation of at tention lets you focus on explicit goals and resist distraction," a key to success in any domain.
"If we can create a game kids want to play, it will be an efficient way to train attention, given how much time kids spend playing and how naturally it comes to them," says Davidson, who heads the University's Center for Investigating Healthy Minds. "They'll love doing the homework."
Stanford University has a Calming Technology Lab, which fo cuses on gadgets that embed mindful, quieting focus. With one such calmer, "breathware," you wear a belt that detects your breath rate. Should a chock-full inbox trigger what the developer calls "email apnea," an iPhone app guides you through focusing exer cises that calm your breath-and mind.
Stanford's Institute of Design offers a graduate course called "Designing Calm." As one of the teachers, Gus Tai, says, 'A lot of Silicon Valley tech is oriented toward distracting. But with calming tech, we're asking how we can bring more balance to the world."
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