I Feel Your Pain: a Haptic Interface for Improving Pain Literacy
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Author(s) • •
Yin, Peggy
Chen, Sofia
Chang, Ethan
Date Issued
September 27, 2025
Publisher
ACM|The 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Citation
Peggy Yin, Sofia Chen, and Ethan Chang. 2025. I Feel Your Pain: a Haptic Interface for Improving Pain Literacy. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST Adjunct '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 70, 1–3.
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Abstract
There is no sensation more universal and misunderstood than pain. While pain presents itself in nearly every eukaryotic organism, it remains one of the most elusive disease states to express, let alone treat. Here, we introduce Pain by Numbers, a haptic, immersive storytelling interface that facilitates user recognition and communication of low-to-medium-intensity pain, in order to improve pain literacy for patients, physicians, and society-at-large.
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UIST Adjunct ’25, Busan, Republic of Korea
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
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https://doi.org/10.1145/3746058.3758972