论文标题
从古老的沉思实践到App Store：设计一个数字容器以进行正念
From Ancient Contemplative Practice to the App Store: Designing a Digital Container for Mindfulness
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论文摘要
如今，数百个流行的移动应用程序销售了与正念的联系。这些应用程序支持哪些活动？他们声称哪些好处？正念老师（作为领域专家）如何查看这些应用程序？我们首先在Google Play上对370个与正念相关的应用程序进行了探索性评论，发现正念主要是作为放松和减轻压力的工具。然后，我们从治疗，佛教和瑜伽传统中采访了15位有关他们对这些应用的观点的教师。老师表示关注的是，将正念介绍的应用程序仅作为放松的工具忽略了其全部潜力。我们借鉴这些老师的经验，提出了将正念与诸如养育同情的培养之类的进一步沉思实践联系起来的设计含义。我们的发现表明了连贯性在设计中的重要性：技术的隐喻和机制与它所遵循的基本原则保持一致。
Hundreds of popular mobile apps today market their ties to mindfulness. What activities do these apps support and what benefits do they claim? How do mindfulness teachers, as domain experts, view these apps? We first conduct an exploratory review of 370 mindfulness-related apps on Google Play, finding that mindfulness is presented primarily as a tool for relaxation and stress reduction. We then interviewed 15 U.S. mindfulness teachers from the therapeutic, Buddhist, and Yogic traditions about their perspectives on these apps. Teachers expressed concern that apps that introduce mindfulness only as a tool for relaxation neglect its full potential. We draw upon the experiences of these teachers to suggest design implications for linking mindfulness with further contemplative practices like the cultivation of compassion. Our findings speak to the importance of coherence in design: that the metaphors and mechanisms of a technology align with the underlying principles it follows.
