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%A Potapov, Kyrill
%A Gold, Nicolas
%A Olugbade, Temitayo
%A Williams, Amanda
%A Overbeck, Christopher
%A Lynch, Danielle
%A Nygren, Minna
%A Berthouze, Nadia
%C New York, NY, USA
%D 2025
%F discovery:10205722
%I ACM
%K movement sonification, chronic pain, agency, sensors, music, enactivism
%P 1-13
%T Movement Sonification of Familiar Music to Support the Agency of People with Chronic Pain
%U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10205722/
%V 2025
%X 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.
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