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Ooex Platform for UK Armed Forces with Chronic Pain: Design with RLX Case-study

Platform for Armed Forces Veterans with Pain - Umio-Ooex Case-Study
This case study shares the story of how we created Ooex, a first-of-its-kind platform created with UK Armed Forces veterans living with chronic pain. Instead of asking veterans to fit into health systems, we built a system that fits into their lives. The result? A dynamic, peer-powered, real experience platform that senses, supports, and amplifies healing from within.

Design with RLX Provocations  and Principles for (Peri-) Menopause in the Workplace

PNG Design for Real Lived Experience - Applied design principles for women aged 40-55 experiencing peri-menopause and menopause in the workforce. pdf_2025-03-27
Discover the emotional and systemic realities shaping women’s daily work lives. This Bergson output contains twelve grounded, radical design provocations based on the RLX principles. it shows how to move from policy to transformation - and from stigma to possibility. The document forms a blueprint for how we can co-compose workplaces that feel safe, alive, and aligned with real becoming.

Transforming the Real Experience of UK Armed Forces Veterans Living with Chronic Pain

Transforming the Real Experience of UK Armed Forces Veterans Living with Chronic Pain -2
This major report presents Umio’s concepts and qualitative research into UK armed forces veteran experiences with chronic pain. It is one deliverable from our 12-month project with the UK Office for Veterans’ Affairs (OVA). 

A Critique of the Social Determinants of Health Framework and the Real Experience Alternative

A Critique of the Social Determinants of Health Framework and the Real Experience Alternative
Despite almost universal agreement on the importance of addressing the social determinants of health, the dominant logic and frameworks for doing so suffer from some important limitations. In this white paper, we critique widely accepted social determinant thinking and models. We then briefly introduce Umio’s real experience-based alternative. 10 page pdf. 

The Creation of Concrete Real Experience: Perception, Affect, Duration and Emotion

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Chris Lawer’s paper "The Creation of Concrete Real Experience" investigates the process by which real, lived experiences are formed, with a particular focus on the interaction of perception, affect, duration, and emotion. Through a synthesis of contemporary perspectives on affect and real experience, Lawer presents a comprehensive framework that integrates these elements within an experience ecosystem.

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