@inproceedings{discovery10205722,
            year = {2025},
           month = {April},
       publisher = {ACM},
          volume = {2025},
          series = {ACM SIG CHI},
           pages = {1--13},
           title = {Movement Sonification of Familiar Music to Support the Agency of People with Chronic Pain},
            note = {{\copyright} The Author(s), 2025. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
       booktitle = {Proceedings CHI '25, Yokohama, Japan},
         address = {New York, NY, USA},
          author = {Potapov, Kyrill and Gold, Nicolas and Olugbade, Temitayo and Williams, Amanda and Overbeck, Christopher and Lynch, Danielle and Nygren, Minna and Berthouze, Nadia},
             url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713601},
        keywords = {movement sonification, chronic pain, agency, sensors, music, enactivism},
        abstract = {FFAME (Filtering Familiar Audio for Movement Exploration) is a
novel sonification framework aiming to facilitate movement in individuals with chronic back pain. Our personalised, music-based
approach contrasts and extends prior work with predetermined
tonal sonification. FFAME progressively filters selected music based
on angles of the trunk. Through a qualitative analysis of reported
experience of 15 participants with chronic pain and 5 physiotherapists, we identify how sonification parameters and musical characteristics affect movement and meaning-making. Music-based movement sonification proved impactful across multiple dimensions: (1)
encouraging movement, (2) escaping pain-related rumination, (3)
externalizing pain experiences, and (4) scaffolding physical activities. Drawing on enactivism and related philosophies, the study
highlights how the semantic indeterminacy of music, combined
with real-time movement sonification, created a rich, open-ended
environment that supported user agency and exploration. Sonification for pain management can be creative and expressive, enabling
people with pain to extend challenging movements and build movement confidence.}
}