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Raspberry Pi-Powered Body Illusion Lets You Experience Parkinson's
hypnosec writes: Analogue, a theater/art group, has developed an interactive installation called "Transports," powered by the Raspberry Pi, that lets you experience symptoms of Parkinson's disease. In the illusion, a person's mind is tricked into believing that his/her hand is the hand shown in a point-of-view video, and the motorized glove worn by the user gives the feeling of tremors associated with Parkinson's. The glove recreates tremors, the ones experienced by patients, at 6 hertz – the upper limit of what is experienced by people with Parkinson's disease. Users are asked to follow instructions fed through headphones while using the glove, which creates an illusion of a virtual limb. They are supposed to mimic the movements of a man on the screen and manipulate real cutlery as he does.
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With apologies, however slight, to Will Smith.
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Just what the world was waiting for.
I remember seeing a spoon made to help Parkinson's patients eat that helped patients a fair bit. Perhaps coupling the two would improve the spoon, and other downstream assistance appliances.
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It's far cheaper to the beat the holy sh8t out of somebody rather than create these disease and aging simulators.
Table-ized A.I.
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Well, thinking about how these sorts of VR systems have been used for treating phantom limb issues, IIRC, it might be interesting to see if visualizing your limbs not shaking might help people with some forms of tremors—possibly not Parkinson's, because it is typically caused by a neurotransmitter deficiency resulting from cell death, but certainly for familial essential tremors and other tremors caused by miswiring.
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I tend to think that pursuing this sort of endeavour doesn't lead to a nice place.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Or just sit on a washing machine.
You might be onto something....
They might have been working on simulating multiple orgasms and stumbled on Parkinson's in error.
This forum is full of unimaginative people, I swear to God.
It's a lot easier, and more compelling, to help people if you know what they're going through. This device allows people to experience the effects of Parkinson's without actually causing actual harm to themselves.
It's simply a role-playing tool, like a bully being asked to pretend like he's the victim.
It's also easier to do. To get an idea what it would be like, take a liter of vodka...
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Just like Tyra Banks "experienced" homelessness for a day?
There is nothing like having the experience of another persons problems to make you more thoughtful and sympathetic. Even if someone like Tyra Banks shallowly exploits homelessness for a day, the principle still holds.
For a real world example of how vicious someone can be about a disease like Parkinson's, just look at what Rush Limbaugh did to Michael J. Fox:
I would bet that anyone who had the simulated experience would never make that kind of odious claim against someone else. For example if kids in school were exposed to the effect they would be a lot less inclined to make fun of people with tremors.
This is an example of how technology can change perceptions in positive ways.
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Indeed. There are also suits and goggles which simulate old age so that youngsters can better empathize with the needs of the elderly. I mean, at some point you'll surely have stood in line behind an older person who took their sweet time to get the spare change out of the purse. With such suits, you can experience for yourself why that took so long.
It's one thing to intellectually know about a concept and a completely different thing to have actually experienced it.
You can do similar stuff when it comes to educating about the dangers of alcohol. Simply put on a special goggle (which emulates your field of view when at about 1.0 BAC and also induces vertigo) and you'll see why driving drunk is dangerous.
Sorry to break it to you, but Parkinson's symptoms are nothing at all like orgasm. Nope, not even close. I wish.
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I was talking about the washing machine action, but I see your point.
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