An innovative system of human pain control is the new application of a Greek student group from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The school will participate this year in the international competition “Microsoft Imagine Cup 2011”.
The students who will take part in the category Software Design, under the guidance of Assistant Professor Leontios Catzileontiadis, have succeeded in creating a complete system of pain management (both physical and psychological), called Epione. In simple words, the system “feels” the pain of the user, scans the expressions of pain and of the psychological situation and helps by distracting the attention from the centre of the pain, through virtual reality and experienced interaction. By the use of the appropriate low frequency music, it makes the brain of the user relax.
At the same time, it supports the doctor connected to the system and advices the user via windows phone. The system helps the user to share his/her pain through information of social behavior and relieves users who suffer from pain of a fictional part. Through increased reality, it simulates the body parts that are missing, creating scenarios of movement only by the thought of the virtual parts.
Epione was the wife of well-known ancient Greek doctor Asclepius and she was worshiped as the one who alleviated the pain of people.
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