Calm Brush
With hundreds of notifications alerting us everyday, our attention is the new commodity.
We decided to explore themes around stress, mindfulness, and calm technology as an open, experimental project in behavioral design. By using peripheral notifications to gently nudge people with information to help them, we can conserve and respect human attention.
In our exploration of concepts around preventative care, mental health, mind-body biofeedback devices and behavior change, we came up with Calm Brush. Calm Brush is our imagination of a smart toothbrush that detects cortisol levels in the saliva to measure stress. The product encourages a simple, science-based mindfulness practice during brushing to support easy habit formation over short time intervals and by capitalizing on existing daily rituals which occur during the times of day best recommended for meditation (morning and night).
Tags: Calm tech, behavioral design, mind-body biofeedback, experience prototyping
Roles: Design research, concept development, experience prototyping
Mentor: Plot London
Diegetic prototype: Speculative artifact from the future
How might we create an experience that alerts people of their stress level and helps them listen to their body in an unobtrusive way? We developed 4 concepts to prototype:
Mindful Interventions: Social listening, machine learning and AI interventions
Mood Brooch: Visualizing inner states, signaling
Room of Requirement: Immersive retreat spaces
Calm Toothbrush: Daily habits, mind-body biofeedback
Team: Mira Bordoloi, Mario Gabric, Mayra Kapteyn, Manish Chauhan, Vanessa Jennings