Dis/Immersion in Mindfulness Meditation with a Wandering Voice Assistant | Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2024)

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Index Terms

1. Dis/Immersion in Mindfulness Meditation with a Wandering Voice Assistant

   1. Human-centered computing

      1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

         1. HCI design and evaluation methods

            1. User studies

         2. Interaction devices

            1. Sound-based input / output

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