Trial reportScientific reports2017
The calming effect of a new wearable device during the anticipation of public speech.
Trial report in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 126 citations in OpenAlex.
- Challenges With the Use of Digital Sham: Systematic Review and Recommendations.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Pooled it
- Physiological feedback technology for real-time emotion regulation: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Pooled it
- Towards Mindless Stress Regulation in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
- Vagus activation by Cold Face Test reduces acute psychosocial stress responses.Scientific reports · 2022Trial
- Good vibrations: Sternal vibration enhances white matter density and interoceptive awareness.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Exposure to false cardiac feedback alters pain perception and anticipatory cardiac frequency.eLife · 2026Article
- Good vibrations: Sternal vibration enhances white matter density and interoceptive awareness.Research square · 2025Article
- Weighted Vest Combined With Vibrotactile Stimulations Decrease the Sympathetic Activity: A Repeated Measures Study.Health science reports · 2024Article
- Evaluating Doppel's impact on Anxiety and Focus amongst adults with ADHD.PLOS digital health · 2024Article
- Does Body Memory Exist? A Review of Models, Approaches and Recent Findings Useful for Neurorehabilitation.Brain sciences · 2024Review
- Effect of subconscious changes in bodily response on thought shifting in people with accurate interoception.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Wearables for Stress Management: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Exploring the use of AI text-to-image generation to downregulate negative emotions in an expressive writing application.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Wearable devices for anxiety & depression: A scoping review.Computer methods and programs in biomedicine update · 2023Article
- Effect of vibrostimulatory wearable technology on stereotyped behaviour in a child with autism and intellectual disability.BMJ case reports · 2022Article
- Time to Intervene: A Continuous-Time Approach to Network Analysis and Centrality.Psychometrika · 2022Article
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- Simple Wearable Device to Reduce Stress When Delivering a Speech without Pre-training.Healthcare informatics research · 2021Article
- An Iterative and Collaborative End-to-End Methodology Applied to Digital Mental Health.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Noninvasive Continuous Monitoring of Vital Signs With Wearables: Fit for Medical Use?Journal of diabetes science and technology · 2021Article
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
We assessed the calming effect of doppel, a wearable device that delivers heartbeat-like tactile stimulation on the wrist. We tested whether the use of doppel would have a calming effect on physiological arousal and subjective reports of state anxiety during the anticipation of public speech, a validated experimental task that is known to induce anxiety. Two groups of participants were tested in a single-blind design. Both groups wore the device on their wrist during the anticipation of public speech, and were given the cover story that the device was measuring blood pressure. For only one group, the device was turned on and delivered a slow heartbeat-like vibration. Participants in the doppel active condition displayed lower increases in skin conductance responses relative to baseline and reported lower anxiety levels compared to the control group. Therefore, the presence, as opposed to its absence, of a slow rhythm, which in the present study was instantiated as an auxiliary slow heartbeat delivered through doppel, had a significant calming effect on physiological arousal and subjective experience during a socially stressful situation. This finding is discussed in relation to past research on responses and entrainment to rhythms, and their effects on arousal and mood.
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