Rise 2 Flow

Research Project, 2020 – 2022

Busyness and lack of sleep seem to be a badge of honour in a large part of our society, yet they don’t lead to long-lasting satisfaction with achievements or even to a sustainable pace of life but instead to burnout or at least creeping exhaustion and loss of quality of life.
This is true for software engineers as much as for many other professions, but as software engineers we carry the responsibility for the systems we develop – and those happen to run the world. As designers, we also unconsciously embed our values into the systems we develop.

We research the potential benefits of breathing practices on wellbeing, self efficacy, and perceived productivity. For this, we ran a pilot and then a first study in 2020, and in 2021 we ran two further iterations.