Our PhD Student Rayna Ney presented her demo at the ACM Interactive Health Conference 2026 in Porto. Her project, Prompting for Mindfulness, lets participants describe out loud the kind of relaxation environment they want to see, and in under a minute, generative AI creates it for a guided box breathing exercise. Combined with cardiac biofeedback, the project demonstrates how affective computing and generative models can support user wellbeing.
Next up, the prototype will be used to study how GenAI personalization of VR environments can help combat stress in young people.
Thanks to Dr. Joseph Ollier, Scientific Director of the Mobiliar Lab for Analytics at ETH Zurich, and Dr. Florian Wangenheim, Head of the Chair of Technology Marketing at ETH Zürich, for their contributions and support.
Read the demo paper here.
