To increase flexibility, a stretch must be held for at least two minutes.

This allows muscles to relax and expand beyond their current state.


BREATHE

Reach your limits


The Breathe App allows you to:

+ reach the critical two minutes
+ consistently develop a routine into a behavior
+ extend beyond your limits

Achieving consistency of progress over extended time is key for behavior change.
 

 

Layered Information for Experience

The Journey is the Interface


Simplifying the Complex

Data Capture, information visualization

Real Data Captured

Breathing Data

VISUALIZING BREATHING PERFORMANCE FOR QUANTIFYING AND IMPROVING SELF.

Relevant Data

Valuable Information

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WHY?

More oxygen increases bloodflow to the brain and body's muscles. 

HOW? - distill DATA into:

+ a Breathing Pattern, making one's performance visible 
+ visually responsive output (see next section).

THIS MORNING:


THIS MORNING'S ITERATIONS

DATA VISUALIZATION SYSTEM


HANDS FREE

Focus on stretching your muscles.

Not stretching your attention.

MOBILE

MOBILE

Output:

o: breathing pattern (dynamic data-visualization)
o: avatar's saturation moves with your breathing
o: longer musical notes on exhale to extend your breath out

o: data visualization of your ability to stay still or count repetitions

INPUT:
i: self for quantified self to be a better self

WEARABLE

WEARABLE

Input:

i: Breathing pattern [mic]



i: Motion [gyroscope]

OUTPUT:
o: Haptic feedback [taptic engine] upon completion


Breathing

User Journey [Service Cycle]

User Journey [Service Cycle]

Nudges

not notifications


A Format for Everyone

TABLET

MOBILE + WEARABLE

INDEX CARDS


Who in particular?

Health conscious people that want to commit to:

+ FLEXIBILITY

+ For adopting a yoga practice
+ Increase performance in another sport
+ The yin to the yang of weight lifting

+ INJURY RECOVERY

+ Stretching sore muscles
+ Complimenting physical therapy
+ Physical rehabilitation

+ FITNESS

+ Aerobic exercise
+ Increased musculature
+ Non-impact bearing body weight challenge
 

Service Providers

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PROTOTYPE


Reach your limits
and surpass them