Enactive Mandala: Audio-visualizing Brain Waves
This work addresses the problem of intuitive emotional and cognitive state visualization for users in human-computer interaction or meditation contexts, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing brain-computer interface concepts.
The authors tackled the challenge of representing real-time physiological data through artificial expressions by developing the Enactive Mandala prototype, which maps EEG signals to modulate ambient music and animated visuals, resulting in a system that provides transparent feedback to enhance insight into brainwave states.
We are exploring the design and implementation of artificial expressions, kinetic audio-visual representations of real-time physiological data that reflect emotional and cognitive state. In this work, we demonstrate a prototype, the Enactive Mandala, which maps real-time EEG signals to modulate ambient music and animated visual music. Transparent real-time audio-visual feedback of brainwave qualities supports intuitive insight into the connection between thoughts and physiological states.