Mind Chair
By the most recent applications of psychophysiology arrives the Mind Chair® developed to make functional to a wider public the modern approach of Biofeedback training.
Biofeedback (or biological feedback) is a learning process in which people learn to improve their health status and their performance by observing, through electronic devices, the signals produced by their body.
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DETECTED SIGNALS
- Blood volume pulse (BVP): measure of volume blood change at each heartbeat.
- Heart rate (HR): number of beats per minute (bpm).
- Heart Rate Variability (HRV): natural change in heart rate in response to emotional, cognitive, and physiological factors.
- Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia (RSA): changes in heart rate in phase with breathing.
- Skin Conductance Level (SCL): measurement of electrodermal activity, considered the main indicator of psycho-physiological arousal.
- Muscle tension (EMG): muscle electrical activity.
- Respiration (RESP): abdominal breathing frequency and width.
MIND CHAIR SENSORS
Blood volume pulse (BVP); Skin Conductance Level (SCL); Respiration (RESP).
Blood volume pulse (BVP); Skin Conductance Level (SCL).
Muscle tension (EMG).
Muscle tension (EMG).
The purpose of Mind Chair® is to spread excellent training techniques among ordinary people and athletes who do not have access to technologies, discoveries and the latest teaching methods. Our approach is the same used in a top performer training program whether he is a professional athlete, a successful manager, a renowned surgeon etc. or not.
Mind Chair® is not only a technological tool but also a philosophy of work thought to adopt a powerful technique of self-regulation as Biofeedback in ordinary life.
Mind Chair®
From the technical point of view the Mind Chair® is a reclining relaxing armchair of the latest generation, which is combined with a Hardware and Software system that allows to detect psychophysiological signals such as breathing, heart rate, muscle tension and skin conductance.
The physiological signals are captured by a high capacity electronic control unit (Infiniti ProComp5 encoder) and managed by a software capable of interacting with the person through a PC.
technology allows the acquisition, visualization and archiving of assessment and training sessions data in real time.
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The athlete, the student, the manager, are trained to achieve optimal performance in all ten Mind Chair® skills:
- Heart: management of cardiac frequency and recovery.
- Breath: respiratory management and efficiency.
- Mind: ability to remain on the task by body-mind interaction.
- Flexibility: ability to move from one exercise to another.
- Strength: ability to remain focused on the exercise to be done.
- Power: energy that I can put into managing the physiological signals.
- Speed: ability to learn the control of individual physiological signals with efficacy.
- Coordination: learning to work on more than one physiological signal at the same time.
- Agility: lightness with which I can do the training session.
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