International Association of CyberPsychology, Training, and Rehabilitation
Music: Not Impossible: a wearable vibro-tactile vest that enables deaf and hearing fans to experience concerts together by translating music into tactile-vibro-acoustic sensations.
Consisting of a vest, two wristlets, and two anklets w/a total of 24 actuators linked to different instruments and sounds that distribute vibrations all over the body. When a drummer hits a bass drum, actuators in the anklets vibrate. The snare drum causes the wristlets to vibrate, and as vocals get louder, vibrations across the tops of the shoulders build up.
Wearers may adjust the intensity of the vibes, which are visually represented via customizable color LED lights.
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". . . If the sensory apparatus involved is the human body, an appropriate means of describing attunement to synaesthetic experience (wherein the combined sensation makes useful otherwise non-threshold-level stimulus from multiple senses) to greatly enhance potentiality in the (cyber) therapeutic encounter. . . as well as being integrated into biofeedback instruments for systematic, reproducible translational therapeutics."
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