Technology and the Learning Environment:
The technology we used in our ski program helped us assess the level of anxiety a person was experiencing in the moment.
Skiing, or learning to ski, challenged our ability to maintain a moving balance as we moved through space. This created anxiety, and the anxiety created responses we felt mirrored the level of anxiety.
We are born with the fear of falling. Understanding Us thought about this "fear" in a different way. We saw the fear and the intuitive responses to the anxiety, not as fear, but as neurological events that reflected the state of our moment to moment relationship to or interaction with gravity.
The technology we developed allowed our facilitators to monitor the intensity of these signals. Increased heart rate and anxiety driven motor responses were linked and monitored. Our facilitators were then able to structure tasks to match an individual's coping skills.
We believe that learning new coping skills in response to anxiety is how we originally learned to move safely through space....first move...experience anxiety..then stop...reflect...and find a new way to think about the task before moving...using the anxiety itself as a .... as a tool to measure the effectiveness of the process.
Our technology helps us guide and structure the learning process, whether it be for skiing, biking, tai chi, walking across a stream on a log or stones, skateboarding, slack lining or simply walking through a challenging environment.
Understanding Us tested these ideas using our ski instruction program. We are adapting these ideas and technology into other programs that help people dealing with all forms of stress.
The technology we used in our ski program helped us assess the level of anxiety a person was experiencing in the moment.
Skiing, or learning to ski, challenged our ability to maintain a moving balance as we moved through space. This created anxiety, and the anxiety created responses we felt mirrored the level of anxiety.
We are born with the fear of falling. Understanding Us thought about this "fear" in a different way. We saw the fear and the intuitive responses to the anxiety, not as fear, but as neurological events that reflected the state of our moment to moment relationship to or interaction with gravity.
The technology we developed allowed our facilitators to monitor the intensity of these signals. Increased heart rate and anxiety driven motor responses were linked and monitored. Our facilitators were then able to structure tasks to match an individual's coping skills.
We believe that learning new coping skills in response to anxiety is how we originally learned to move safely through space....first move...experience anxiety..then stop...reflect...and find a new way to think about the task before moving...using the anxiety itself as a .... as a tool to measure the effectiveness of the process.
Our technology helps us guide and structure the learning process, whether it be for skiing, biking, tai chi, walking across a stream on a log or stones, skateboarding, slack lining or simply walking through a challenging environment.
Understanding Us tested these ideas using our ski instruction program. We are adapting these ideas and technology into other programs that help people dealing with all forms of stress.
Understanding Us offered new and intermediate to advanced skiers, the world's most technically advanced personal performance system. We developed this technology to enhance the effectiveness of our unique confidence building program.
Our biofeedback monitoring system gives valuable feedback to our facilitators that reflects the level of anxiety an individual is experiencing during the learning process. This in turn allows the facilitator to adjust the learning process to the learner's needs. We did this with the understanding that if a person is challenged, but remains relaxed and comfortable, they learn faster and have a more enjoyable experience.
We take the hard work and anxiety out of challenging activities without removing the challenge.
Our biofeedback monitoring system gives valuable feedback to our facilitators that reflects the level of anxiety an individual is experiencing during the learning process. This in turn allows the facilitator to adjust the learning process to the learner's needs. We did this with the understanding that if a person is challenged, but remains relaxed and comfortable, they learn faster and have a more enjoyable experience.
We take the hard work and anxiety out of challenging activities without removing the challenge.
Heartrate Monitor
Constantly monitors an individual's physical effort and anxiety level. The data is relayed via Bluetooth interface to....
Constantly monitors an individual's physical effort and anxiety level. The data is relayed via Bluetooth interface to....
The Facilitator's Phone
which reads and records the information for future reference. It also interprets the transmitted information and quantifies any changes and relays the changes to the...
which reads and records the information for future reference. It also interprets the transmitted information and quantifies any changes and relays the changes to the...
Audio Receiver
Announces (audio alert) any changes in how a person is experiencing the moment and the facilitator uses this information to personalize the experience.