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Design for Caring : Stress & Anxiety

WHAT WILL WE BE COVERING?

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Design for Care is developing new solutions for care in the 21st century, focusing on practical, 'can-do' results, which can be shared widely.”

• Lord Rogers of Riverside

The role of Care

Care involves acknowledging the transforming character of the social and material environment and our capabilities to act as part of it by cultivating sensitivity to ‘the attachments that support people.’ (Imrie et al., 2016)

Care asks for skills and sensibilities that attune people to the fragile relations making up daily settings and enable them to judge the qualities of those relations so that they can be appropriately supported. (Imrie et al., 2016)

Four Ethical Elements of Care: Attentiveness, Responsibility, Competence and Responsiveness. Not intended as moral principles, but as potential skills and sensibilities that might be conducive to good

• care. (Imrie et al., 2016)

The role of Technology

The discovery and development of medications, art forms, transportation, electronics, communications, treatments to improve mental, physical and emotional health are indicators of the evolution and importance of technology as a tool for progress. (Wadhwa, 2017) This offers a paradox: Technology can be regarded as something that offers stress management while also being a stressor. (Wadhwa, 2017)

In recent years we as a society have become more aware

• f the negative impact technology can have on a persons

life. Now more than ever younger generations are developing anxiety disorders fuelled by the presence of social media, picture editing apps and group chats.

Technology as a stressor

Social Media: A Stressor

Social Media is constant, even with notifications silenced. It is anxiety inducing and can lead to a heightened awareness

• f one’s appearance and body.

There is a connection between the idea of ‘likes’, comments and messages, and a person’s value or worth.

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Social media reaches farther than we can physically reach with advertising

• Tony Clark

Technology to De-stress

multitude of mental health issues such as stress, anxiety, insomnia etc.

is something in their life that they are not alone in coping with.

• f devices such as the Muse headset, Dr. Lowenstein’s Stress Thermometer

and more allows the user to practice self care no matter their location.

“…uses a pulse sensor to track your heartbeat and helps you relax and slow that beat. With practice, users learn to slow their hearts and reach a relaxed and happier state, and the device comes with heart-slowing "games" you can play and you can use emWave2 while performing other tasks.” (Zetlin, 2016)

Case Study: emWave2

• fun. I can actually view and confirm my presence, my

Case Study: emWave2

Anxiety and Insomnia

➤ What Came First?

Anxiety causes sleeping problems, and new research suggests sleep deprivation can cause an anxiety disorder. Research also shows that some form of sleep disruption is present in nearly all psychiatric disorders. Studies also show that people with chronic insomnia are at high risk of developing an anxiety disorder. Research also shows that some form of sleep disruption is present in nearly all psychiatric

• disorders. Studies also show that people with

chronic insomnia are at high risk of developing an anxiety disorder.

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….to value care we have to recognize the inevitable interdependency essential to the reliant and vulnerable beings that we are.”

• María Puig de la Bellacasa

with a light system that reteaches you how to fall asleep naturally, without taking any medicine

20 minutes and then Dodow switches itself off.

Case Study: Dodow

Case Study: Dodow

By synchronizing your (abdominal) breathing with the pulsing light, Dodow progressively takes your breathing down from 11 to 6 breaths per minute. The rate of 6 BPM is also used in what is called cardiac coherence exercises. According to several studies, the rhythm is the rate that maximizes stimulation of the baroreflex - a reflex whose role is to balance the autonomic nervous system when it’s unbalanced.

Case Study: Sleep by Headspace

alternative solution is meditation to aid your insomnia. Headspace developed Sleep by Headspace to do so.

by concentrated, meditation breathing techniques to be carried out for certain periods of time, e.g 10 minutes, at a go.

were using the app as a sleep aid in order to help them fall asleep.

Case Study: Sleep by Headspace

insomnia aimed app that acknowledged that technology was also one of the causes of sleep disruption.

looking at screens or interacting with technology in some form or other that this feeds into our mental inability to shut off and relax.

Case Study: Sleep by Headspace

“Headspace exists to improve the health and happiness of the world. But it’s hard to be healthy, let alone happy, if you haven’t slept properly. While regular meditation has been shown to help with sleep health, we knew that people were also looking for something they could use in bed. So we designed a whole new experience, called Sleep by Headspace, to help create the perfect conditions for healthy, restful sleep”

ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response)

awareness scale (global measure of mindfulness)

their heads all the way down to their spine. It’s a way of relaxing and is said to help with anxiety, insomnia and depression.

everybody tells you not to do that again)

How is it supposed to work?

ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response)

Visual Triggers

ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response)

Auditory Triggers

Bob Ross - Audio and Visual triggers

Technostress

introduction of new technologies.

information technologies in a healthy manner.

little time to spend on sustained thinking and creative analysis.

Technostress

What is Technostress

Technostress in college and schools

and technostress factors in.

going to be left behind.

websites and that would have been easy and fun to do, but that’s what’s expected for every module which can be a little stressful.

Sulis

Would've been easier if it said modules

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