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Extended Reality for Chronic Pain Relief

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Jiaheng Wang,

Craig Anslow,

Brian Robinson,

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VRST '19: Proceedings of the 25th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3359996.3365030

Published: 12 November 2019 Publication History

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Chronic pain is ongoing pain lasting for long periods of time after the initial injury or disease has healed. Chronic pain is difficult to treat and can affect the daily lives of patients. Distraction therapy is a proven way of relieving pain by redirecting the focus of patients’ attention. Virtual reality is an effective platform for distraction therapy as it immerses the user visually, aurally, and even somewhat physically in a virtual world detached from reality. There is little research done on the effects that physical interactions have on pain management. This project aims to evaluate different types of extended reality (XR) interactions, including full body movement, for chronic pain patients to determine which is the best for pain relief. We are building a prototype for participants to interact both mentally and physically and measuring the reduction in subjective pain ratings at various points of the XR experience.

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Kim DKwak YYun SKim BChae SLee H(2023)Development of a Deformable and Flexible Robot for Pain Communication: Field Study of ALH-E in the Hospital*2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309657(2322-2327)Online publication date: 28-Aug-2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309657

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VRST '19: Proceedings of the 25th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

November 2019

498 pages

ISBN:9781450370011

DOI:10.1145/3359996

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Tomas Trescak
Western Sydney University
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Simeon Simoff
Western Sydney University
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Deborah Richards
Macquarie University
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Anton Bogdanovych
Western Sydney University
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Thierry Duval
IMT Atlantique
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Torsten Kuhlen
RWTH Aachen University
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Huyen Nguyen
University of New South Wales
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Shigeo Morishima
University of Waseda
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Yuichi Itoh
University of Osaka
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Richard Skarbez
La Trobe
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Anton Bogdanovych
Western Sydney University
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Martin Masek
Edith Cowan University

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Kim DKwak YYun SKim BChae SLee H(2023)Development of a Deformable and Flexible Robot for Pain Communication: Field Study of ALH-E in the Hospital*2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309657(2322-2327)Online publication date: 28-Aug-2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309657

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