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Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety
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Re: Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety
#182Very interesting concept and neat visuals. Before I dive in, I'm a trained vocalist and breathing is core concept #1. My feedback may be geared towards our line of work, but I believe breathing mastery is analogous across domains. Here are my initial thoughts: Using the microphone and camera makes sense. When the camera required calibration, my excitement grew. Then my anticipation gave way to disappointment when the…
Thanks, that's very useful feedback. At the moment, the camera isn't utilised to its full potential - it is used to guide positioning rather than measuring accessory muscles or shoulder movement. I think overall adding sensors to the experience does add something, and hopefully with more development the app could alert the user to things like hyperventilation and dysfunctional breathing patterns.
I just bought it, the microphone doesn’t seem to do a lot (and I don’t gave access to camera) but I will try it out later.
It’s a well thought app. The core function is really good, I will enjoy trying out the different exercises! The design of the homescreen could be better, looks a bit cluttered.
Maybe some background information if it takes off in the future would be nice for people who don’t know the science behind each breath type.
Other than that, I wish you success!
Re: Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety
#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, first thing is, can you breath through your nose? Do you have that habit down? Fixing this is really important, for me at least. If a person can't breath through their nose, I suggest trying Afrin. This was such a huge lightbulb moment for me, and was my "AHA" moment. I really didn't know that the normal human condition is to nasal breathe. My mom has the same condition and I was raised by her so I didn't reali…
i see you follow gabor mate and i see lot of talk about trauma and understand people's need for processing it and so on. ptsd is real, not denying that. having said that, in the past years i have actually been moving in the other direction, that sometimes trauma narratives tend to keep people stuck in the past. it solidifies certain types of trauma, makes it part of a person's identity and hampers recovery for some.…
I worked with a trauma therapist and this was exactly what we worked on. The way out of trauma is to find out / realize that you’ve worked your way out of trauma. That the danger zone is gone.
Re: Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety
#184You might want to explore using haptic feedback via the devices vibrator motor to prompt the user to breathe in and out. One short pulse for breathe in, and a longer pulse to breathe out. This would allow the user to perform the exercises with their eyes closed and the phone on their lap. I know the visual functionality is core to your design, but might be a good idea to provide some optionality for users who just wa…
+1 to this suggestion. It’s part of what makes the breathe app on the Apple Watch engaging, the stream of tapping on your wrist really helps. I’m sure the same can be achieved with the phone.
Re: Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety
#185Good app.
>Amazing, you're a natural!
Well, I hope so... lol
Re: Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety
#186You might want to explore using haptic feedback via the devices vibrator motor to prompt the user to breathe in and out. One short pulse for breathe in, and a longer pulse to breathe out. This would allow the user to perform the exercises with their eyes closed and the phone on their lap. I know the visual functionality is core to your design, but might be a good idea to provide some optionality for users who just wa…
+1. I did add very subtle haptics (possibly too subtle) as the indicator changes, but I like the idea of making them stronger and recognisable for each breath phase
Re: Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety
#187First off, your website and app are aesthetically breathtaking. You have a real talent with design. I have not used the breathing app, so ultimately there may be some context to which I am unware, however, my first thought when hearing the description of the App is why? Why do we as technologists insist on making things more complicated? Breathing is as old as life, and though I concede that there can be tremendous d…
I think here the tech is justified - it adds a few added incentives to do the exercises (visuals responding, progress tracking, showing lung function if possible) and can guide people through in a much more scaleable way than in-person / or remote sessions. From literature, it seems breathing exercises do have real benefits, the problem is with compliance - completing them consistently and effectively enough. Lungy tries to make the process more enjoyable and fun (rather than following a worksheet or just breathing into a plastic box). But yep, I think in healthcare, the simplest possible approach with minimal, but not necessarily zero, tech is the way to go. Haha, nice username btw!
Re: Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety
#188Neat app, I like meditating and this seems useful for feedback. Ideas to consider - I went through the tutorial and it taught me to breathe in through nose, out through mouth. When I was trying my first day, those tips weren’t there or available so it was hard to know if I was doing what you wanted - the labels (breathe in, etc) fade to transparent before next one ends meaning there is a gap where it’s not clear what…
Really good points - thank you. Will look at making the indicator more intuitive.
Re: Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety
#189Very interesting concept and neat visuals. Before I dive in, I'm a trained vocalist and breathing is core concept #1. My feedback may be geared towards our line of work, but I believe breathing mastery is analogous across domains. Here are my initial thoughts: Using the microphone and camera makes sense. When the camera required calibration, my excitement grew. Then my anticipation gave way to disappointment when the…
Thanks, that's very useful feedback. At the moment, the camera isn't utilised to its full potential - it is used to guide positioning rather than measuring accessory muscles or shoulder movement. I think overall adding sensors to the experience does add something, and hopefully with more development the app could alert the user to things like hyperventilation and dysfunctional breathing patterns.
You could use the front TrueDepth sensor that is behind FaceID unlocking. You will get quite detailed RGB + depth data. It could possibly capture even the subtle movements of upper chest.
see Steffen Urban, Thomas Lindemeier, David Dobbelstein, Matthias Haenel, "On the Issues of TrueDepth Sensor Data for Computer Vision Tasks Across Different iPad Generations" and Andreas Breitbarth, Timothy Schardt, Cosima Kind, Julia Brinkmann, Paul-Gerald Dittrich, Gunther Notni, "Measurement accuracy and dependence on external influences of the iPhone X TrueDepth sensor".
Re: Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety
#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
+1 For tapping the mouth shut. I used to snore and wake up tired now that I use 3M-1530-2 tape I wake up refreshed. So N is now equal to 2 !
+2 for taping mouth shut. I read the book a week ago, said, why not. Instant improvement. Before, I'd have to wake up to go to the bathroom every night for the past 10 years, and when I woke up I'd have this eye pain every day leading to these giant eye bags. On top of those, if I didn't get that last sleep cycle in, I'd have to take a nap to get rid of this weird headache which made the time in the morning before na…
I think I would staying awake at least the first nights just by the thought that I have my mouth shut, and "what if I cannot breath and I die", or "this is so uncomfortable" etc etc. How did you manage that?