X-RAI Vision: Bio-Interactive XR for Objective Functional Assessment

Musculoskeletal conditions require adaptive reorganization of the body’s movement to compensate for pain and functional limitations. These movement changes manifest as patterns that carry diagnostic information that no standard clinical measure can currently capture. This talk introduces bio-interactive XR as a research tool that integrates wearable sensors and machine learning to investigate the body's adaptive intelligence as a new paradigm for objective functional assessment.

Drawing on our foundational studies, this talk covers:

• The measurement gap: Why current clinical outcome measures fail to capture what matters most about how patients actually function.
• Variability as signal: How patient movement data captured in bio interactive systems contains diagnostic patterns invisible to standard observation.
• From assessment to intervention: How the same bio-interactive paradigm extends from diagnostic applications to therapeutic delivery.

Attendees will leave with a concrete understanding of how XR and wearable sensor integration can advance objective clinical measurement, practical insights into the design challenges of building assessment systems for healthcare, and an understanding of what’s next.