Lab members Diane Gromala and Terry Lavender attended (via Skype) a Mindfulness Technologies Workshop, held at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) on November 18. Gromala gave an introduction to CPRM & the lab and discussed immersive virtual reality & mindfulness; while Lavender presented his proposed research on portable mindfulness: immersion and meditation on smart phones and tablets.
Other topics included the effects of mindfulness on pain in adolescents; the effects of mindfulness on pain in adolescents and mindfulness technologies: work in progress. The workshop was organized by OCADs Mobile Experience Lab (http://mobilelab.ca/).
