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Title: An Accompaniment System for Healing Emotions of Patients with Dementia who Repeat Stereotypical Utterances
Authors: Oshima, Chika
Itou, Naoki
Nishimoto, Kazushi
Hosoi, Naohito
Yasuda, Kiyoshi
Nakayama, Koichi
Keywords: Music
Caregiver
Voice-to-MIDI
Issue Date: 2011-06-17
Publisher: Springer
Magazine name: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume: 6719/2011
Start page: 65
End page: 71
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21535-3_9
Abstract: 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.
Rights: This is the author-created version of Springer, Chika Oshima, Naoki Itou, Kazushi Nishimoto, Naohito Hosoi, Kiyoshi Yasuda and Koichi Nakayama, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6719/2011, 2011, 65-71. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21535-3_9
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10119/10625
Material Type: author
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