Design digital mindfulness for personal wellbeing

Abstract

The digital health and wellbeing movement has led to development of what we here baptize as digital mindfulness applications that allow people to improve psychological wellbeing. The approaches to digital mindfulness vary greatly and as a researcher it can be difficult to gain an overview of the field and what to focus on in one's own research. Here we describe four levels of digital mindfulness with examples and focus on the larger question of how to design for digital mindfulness. We end up with a set of general issues that we hope will generate further discussion and research in the field of digital mindfulness.