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Involuntary “Deep Breathing” by Posture-Respiration Feedback Control System

Authors:
Shusaku Nomura
Hayakawa Kazuki
Sakai Osamu
Sekiya Ryoma
Herath Samith S.

Keywords: breathing control; posture feedback; respiration

Abstract:
When a person bends his/her back, it makes it easier to exhale the air from lungs but difficult to inhale. In contrast, when a person lean his/her back, it makes it difficult to exhale but easier to inhale. This simple fact opens the possibility to regulate human breathing involuntary with posture control. We developed a posture-respiration feedback regulation system and tested the efficacy of the proposed architecture. The results indicate that “deep breathing” was successfully induced when the posture control was precisely synchronized with the user’s own respiration.

Pages: 24 to 27

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017

Publication date: November 12, 2017

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2326-9324

ISBN: 978-1-61208-601-9

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from November 12, 2017 to November 16, 2017