diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index dcf09169..e72106fe 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,8 +1,10 @@ +![Logo](images/logo.png) # Aim To utilize music therapy (administration of specific, research proven beat frequencies) combined with visual parallel realities to create an experience aimed at calming the viewer. We believe, given the magnitude of research articles done on the effects of music therapy on anxiety, depressive moods and similar things, our product will be able to deliver virtual immersive environments, using Virtual Reality, that administer effective music therapy to the end user. # Project Log: +## Sharpening our tools [Planning phase] ### [10/19/2019 10.00 PM]: 1. Collection of research articles that may help to generate effective virtual environments. diff --git a/website/vr-devs(logo).png b/images/logo.png similarity index 100% rename from website/vr-devs(logo).png rename to images/logo.png diff --git a/product/README.md b/product/README.md index 223a802d..5daee397 100644 --- a/product/README.md +++ b/product/README.md @@ -1,7 +1,26 @@ # Getting Started with the Product +<<<<<<< HEAD +Our basic idea is to search for the kind of environment (visual and auditory) that helps reduce depressive/anxious mood aggravations. + +Background research for the same is our first priority before we develop any virtual environment. We have moved the detaild research to the end, in order to keep the basics of our approach consice. +1. Research on auditory influence in modulating the mood of a person +2. Research on the effectiveness of MIPs (Mood Induction Procedures) in inducing specific targeted moods into a person, and the extent to which the person feels presence of that environment all around them. + +# How we plan to approach the problem + +Based on our preliminary research, we have come across a couple of different techniques: + +1. Music therapy: the umbrella of techniques in which different frequencies are administered in an attempt to reduce negative emotions. +2. Mood Induction Procedures: the techniques developed (ever since the work of Schachter and Singer where they talk about how physiological emotions elicited are tried to be connected to stimuli cues) that allow induction of specific positive (or even negative) emotions in the subject. + +# Literature on the effect of different frequencies on the mood of the subject. We have usually targeted articles on moods relating to anxiety, negative thoughts, and similar depressive moods. +======= +![Logo](images/logo.png) + Basic idea is to search for the kind of environment (visual and auditory) that helps reduce depressive/anxious mood aggravations. Background research for the same is our first priority before we develop any virtual environement: +>>>>>>> e26876fb4e0e3364d32223416e27cdd8ece1c47e 1. A pilot study comparing reduction of anxiety by binaural beat audio and patient-selected music in the pre-operative period. (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2044.2006.04944_12.x): Inducing brain-wave states with binaural auditory beats has been used to decrease anxiety and behavioral problems, and improve mood diff --git a/product/images/logo.png b/product/images/logo.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e11fab1b Binary files /dev/null and b/product/images/logo.png differ diff --git a/website/README.md b/website/README.md index 38146fa7..8567dc3e 100644 --- a/website/README.md +++ b/website/README.md @@ -1 +1,4 @@ -# Getting Started with Website \ No newline at end of file +# Getting Started with Website + +![Logo](images/logo.png) + diff --git a/website/images/logo.png b/website/images/logo.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e11fab1b Binary files /dev/null and b/website/images/logo.png differ