An Accompaniment System for Healing Emotions of Patients with Dementia who Repeat Stereotypical Utterances

• Oshima, Chika

• Itou, Naoki

• Nishimoto, Kazushi

• Hosoi, Naohito

• Yasuda, Kiyoshi

• Nakayama, Koichi

抄録

Our research aim is that even caregivers who are musical novices perform part of a music therapy activity. In this paper, we present an accompaniment system for calming the symptoms of patients with dementia with mental instability who repeat stereotypical behaviors and utterances. This system converts patients’ utterances into pitches in response to an operator’s key entry and automatically plays a cadence based on those pitches. The cadence begins on a chord that resonates with a patient’s emotions and finishes on a chord that calms his symptoms. Because the use of this system is simple, even musical novices can use it to calm dementia patients’ continuous stereotypical utterances.

Toward Useful Services for Elderly and People with Disabilities, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2011, Montreal, Canada, June 20-22, 2011.

identifier:https://dspace.jaist.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10119/10625

収録刊行物

• Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6719/2011 65-71, 2011-06-17

  Springer

キーワード

• Music
• Caregiver
• Voice-to-MIDI

詳細情報

• CRID: 1050564287491759744
• NII論文ID: 120004247376
• ISSN: 03029743
• Web Site: http://hdl.handle.net/10119/10625
• 本文言語コード: en
• 資料種別: journal article
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