Self-Identification of Mentality and Self-Control through Indirect Biofeedback

This paper describes a possibility of a new scheme for a user with mental health problems so that the user can identify his/her own mentality and self-control it not by visiting specialists passively as usual but by proactively confronting his/her symptoms. For that purpose, the scheme should provide the user with functions not only to externalize and objectify the userâ?™s mental state but also for the user itself to self-control the mental state. Here, we propose an indirect biofeedback system which represents a userâ?™s mental state with color and shape, and enables the user to grasp his/her mental state and to proactively change and control it through methods of breathing.