Potapov, Kyrill;
Gold, Nicolas;
Olugbade, Temitayo;
Williams, Amanda;
Overbeck, Christopher;
Lynch, Danielle;
Nygren, Minna;
(2025)
Movement Sonification of Familiar Music to Support the Agency of People with Chronic Pain.
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Proceedings CHI ’25, Yokohama, Japan.
(pp. pp. 1-13).
ACM: New York, NY, USA.
(In press).
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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.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Movement Sonification of Familiar Music to Support the Agency of People with Chronic Pain |
| Event: | ACM SIG CHI '25 |
| Dates: | 27 Apr 2025 - 1 May 2025 |
| ISBN-13: | 979-8-4007-1394 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1145/3706598.3713601 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713601 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 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/ |
| Keywords: | movement sonification, chronic pain, agency, sensors, music, enactivism |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > UCL Interaction Centre |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10205722 |
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