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PainByte: Chronic Pain and BioMedical Engineering Through the Lens of Classical Ballet & Virtual Reality

Smith-Nunes, G., Shaw, A. and Neale, Camilla (2018) PainByte: Chronic Pain and BioMedical Engineering Through the Lens of Classical Ballet & Virtual Reality. In: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. ACM Press, pp. 493-497. ISBN 978-1-4503-5568-1

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Abstract

[pain]Byte is looks at the world of chronic pain. The
invisible disability of spinal chronic pain which is
manifested and represented through data driven dance
(classical ballet) and virtual reality (VR). Enabling the
non sufferer audience to ‘see’ the hidden nature and
challenges of chronic pain linked to the benefits of
biomedical engineering and implanted technology. The
body as analogue represented through the digital of the
wearables and the virtual in the VR experience.
Humanising implanted technology and exposing the
invisible nature of chronic pain for audiences. In our
exhibit, people can watch the VR, interact with the
biometric sensors and our single Kinect motion capture.
A recording of the ballet will be projected.

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Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords: chronic pain, pain systems, invisible disability, virtual reality, ballet, data visualisation
Subjects: L Education > L Education (General)
N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general
T Technology > TT Handicrafts Arts and crafts
Divisions: College of Business, Psychology and Sport > School of Sport and Exercise Science
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SWORD Depositor: Prof. Pub Router
Depositing User: Camilla Lloyd
Date Deposited: 12 Apr 2018 11:16
Last Modified: 17 Jun 2020 17:21
URI: https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/6496

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