Practice your own mindfulness
This project focuses on providing college students a new option to reduce stress, increase focus and sleep better by listening to binuaral beats therapy while they work on their laptops.
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More and more college students are under pressure due to multiple reasons. 61% of them suffer from anxiety. Other concerns include depression (49 percent), stress (45 percent), family issues (31 percent), academic performance (28 percent) and relationship problems (27 percent). In addition, counselling centers are not avaliable in all schools and a lot of students are too shy to ask for help from counseling services.
Binaural beats therapy is an emerging form of soundwave therapy in which the right and left ears listen to two slightly different frequency tones yet perceive the tone as one. Proponents of binaural beats therapy liken the effect to that of meditation. Binaural beats therapy is a self-help audio technology that is available to buy worldwide. The purpose for using binaural beats therapy may differ for people. Some need help decreasing their anxiety, while others want to increase their concentration, or deepen their level of meditation.
A mobile application for meditation with sessions of guided meditation audios
A web-based platform that sells meditation mp3s, CDs, podcasts and blogs online.
A music streaming platform with all kinds of music and sountracks services.
College student who suffer from stress, concentration issues and insomnia
Individuals that interested in binaural beats therapy
19 | Sophomore
B.S. in Business
Bloomington, Indiana
Working out is exhausting and time consuming
Therapy is usually expensive
Reduce stress from academic life
"As a business major, I have tons of team projects and presentations to do on a daily basis, which stresses me out all the time. I whish there was some meditation that I could listen to while I was working on my laptop."
20 | Junior
B.S. in Computer Science
Atlanta, GA
Most of the meditations are expensive
Easily get distracted by other content online
Increase focus on study
"I love coding yet it is still very challenging sometimes. I often feel frustrated and unfocused when I try to fix problems. Therefore, I wish I could find something that helps me with that."
20 | Senior
B.A in Journalism
New York, NY
Mobile meditation applications can easily lead to using phone for other entertainment instead
Improve insomnia
"Job hunting and school projects brings a lot of pressure and makes it difficult to fall asleep at night, which gives me even more anxiety. I hope meditation can help me stay positive through such a difficult period of time."
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Users can check out some new audios picked up by the platform.
By clicking on "Take the Questionaire", users can find out the right kind of binaural beats therapy by filling out a survey.
Users can check out the recommended audio type or click on the binaural beats in the menu to explore all kinds of audios. There will be simple motion graphics in loops to bring up certain vibes while keeping it non-distracting.
Users can sign up for premium membership if they would like to have full access to all therapies with no ads and high quality of audios
I would like to explore other forms to present the binaural beats to optimize the user experience. For example, a plug-in in Chrome or a mobile application might bring more flexibility to the students.
In addition, I would want to conduct more user testing if given more time on this project, figuring out how well the therapy helps students regarding to stress reducing, focus increasing and better sleep.