U.S., Sept. 10 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07809958) titled 'Haptic Feedback for Improved Interoceptive Awareness and Mental Well-being' on July 23.
Brief Summary: This study investigates the relationship between heart-beat haptic feedback on interoceptive awareness and mental-wellbeing. Previous research showed non-significant results in short-term emotion regulation tasks when given heartbeat haptic feedback, suggesting the need for an extended adjustment training period to build trust with interoceptive feedback systems. To address this, the experimenters propose an in-the-wild study where participants wear a Bangle.js smartwatch for one week each under two conditions: (1) Real heartbeat ...