By seeing how people move, the app can tell if they are in the first stages of the neurological disorder
In Africa, for every region, there’s a dance. Azonto. Rimbaxpaxpax. Alkayida. Skelewu. Bolo. Coupé-Décalé. Shoki. Some are more involved than others. The most recent to separate the kinetically intelligent from the choreographically challenged is the vosho. Merging strength, joint health, rhythm and stamina, the vosho reached prominence in late 2017 and its many iterations have had the staying power to confuse and delight us in equal measure.
Babusi Nyoni created the app as a gag. His vosho is finicky. Those who can’t do, apparently make apps. The app which he released just in time for December 2018 has now found a way to be effective outside of entertainment. One of those experiments was the vosho app. Nyoni says he wanted to see what else he could do with the data collected by the app. Dance is a great communicator and rehabilitation tool, but what about using it as a diagnostic tool? The formula to define a good vosho boils down to movement assessment over time. How low a dancer can go and how quickly they can come back up without help. Did their posture change? Was their gait altered by the dance.
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