Beyond Meditation: Understanding Everyday Mindfulness Practices and Technology Use Among Experienced Practitioners
arXiv Preprint Archive July 14, 2024 Jingjin Li, Karen Anne Cochrane, Gilly Leshed
Experienced mindfulness practitioners use strategies like brief exercises, social accountability, and teacher guidance to sustain long-term practice. They adopt technologies such as mobile apps, wearables, and online sessions for reminders, emotion tracking, and community connection, but also deliberately limit use and repurpose technology as a focus for mindfulness. The findings expand the definition of mindfulness and highlight tensions between supporting short- and long-term practice. Design recommendations include using metaphor, reappropriating non-mindfulness technology, and integrating community support into personal practice.