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5.2 Limitations and Future Work
The work reported in this chapter has raised interesting future directions, chief of
which is the use of color to code multiple pain types for a particular body region.
While our proof-of concept prototype has not taken into consideration issues such as
application-level security and scalability; clearly, these are avenues for future work,
as are more fine-grained subdivisions of the 3-D mannequin. The application could
also be ported to other clinical areas (such as patients recovering from surgery or
being treated for cancer). Our research is, of course, prototypical. It has not been
tested in a large-scale setting, nor has its impact on health care processes been as-
sessed. All these efforts constitute an essential part of our future endeavors.
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