Abstract
The paper explores the effects of mindfulness-based design interventions to help children better self-regulate their emotions. It attempts to ascertain if the use of prototype designs could further enhance the children’s awareness or mindfulness, and emotional wellbeing. Children’s emotional and behavioural problems have become a growing concern. These problems are related to the difficulties children face in controlling their emotions, which may lead to psychological problems in adulthood. This indicates the need to help children understand feelings and how to self-regulate emotions. A pilot design project was conducted to explore the connection between mindfulness-based practice and emotion regulation in children to develop usable mindfulness-based prototype designs. Preliminary findings indicate storytelling to be a mindfulness-based prototype design that can benefit children in terms of emotional regulation. To fully realize the potential of mindfulness-based design interventions may require the development of more robust and rigorous activities and thorough analysis.
Keywords
mindfulness-based design interventions, emotion regulation, children, visual communication design
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.748
Citation
Yeo, J.P., Teo, C., and Tay, R. (2022) Visual communication design as a form of mindfulness-based intervention, in Lockton, D., Lenzi, S., Hekkert, P., Oak, A., Sádaba, J., Lloyd, P. (eds.), DRS2022: Bilbao, 25 June - 3 July, Bilbao, Spain. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.748
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Visual communication design as a form of mindfulness-based intervention
The paper explores the effects of mindfulness-based design interventions to help children better self-regulate their emotions. It attempts to ascertain if the use of prototype designs could further enhance the children’s awareness or mindfulness, and emotional wellbeing. Children’s emotional and behavioural problems have become a growing concern. These problems are related to the difficulties children face in controlling their emotions, which may lead to psychological problems in adulthood. This indicates the need to help children understand feelings and how to self-regulate emotions. A pilot design project was conducted to explore the connection between mindfulness-based practice and emotion regulation in children to develop usable mindfulness-based prototype designs. Preliminary findings indicate storytelling to be a mindfulness-based prototype design that can benefit children in terms of emotional regulation. To fully realize the potential of mindfulness-based design interventions may require the development of more robust and rigorous activities and thorough analysis.