Philips Lighting’s new smartphone app assists women with light, animation and breathing. In a recent new study to help support women during labor they found that a smartphone app and light projections can actually help women stay focused on things other than labor pains.
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This unique study took place at the mother and childcare center at the Maxima Medical Center in Veldhoven, Netherlands. In efforts to improve the delivery experience for moms-to-be Philips has incorporated their Ambient Experience philosophy into a whole new type of health setting.
This new labor assistant app works with two main elements:
1) The use of a smartphone application helps pregnant women practice labor breathing techniques prior to going into delivery. It visually demonstrates breathing patterns via a graphic animation while allowing woman to personalize their delivery room’s walls with projection based animation.
2) The second element uses the wall based visual animation to give the mom and dad to be an attractive visual impression of the labor’s progress via the data contraction monitors. This allows the woman to focus on attractive light projections that change based on her breathing patterns.
Philips currently offers two themes – nature and abstract. These are available through their smartphone app. The visual animation can be saved on the smartphone as a movie or image and be kept to add to the baby book. Learn more about their new smartphone application in the video below:
