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| Title: | A Music Therapy System for Patients with Dementia who Repeat Stereotypical Utterances |
| Authors: | Oshima, Chika
Itou, Naoki
Nishimoto, Kazushi
Yasuda, Kiyoshi
Hosoi, Naohito
Yamashita, Hiromi
Nakayama, Koichi
Horikawa, Etuso |
| Keywords: | Dementia
BPSD
Music therapy
iso-principle
case study |
| Issue Date: | 2013-04 |
| Publisher: | 情報処理学会 |
| Magazine name: | Journal of Information Processing |
| Volume: | 21 |
| Number: | 2 |
| Start page: | 283 |
| End page: | 294 |
| DOI: | 10.2197/ipsjjip.21.283 |
| Abstract: | Some patients with dementia repeat stereotypical utterances and/or scream in agitation for several hours. Music therapy is a method known to alleviate the symptoms of dementia. Altshuler explained that a music therapist should first play music that matches the current mood of a patient according to the iso-principle, principle of music therapy. We thought that if certain types of music can calm patients down, a music therapy system that is usable for musical novices could be useful in nursing homes. Therefore, we present a music therapy system, "MusiCuddle," that automatically plays a short musical phrase (tune) in response to a caregiver's simple key entry. This music overlaps with patients' utterances and/or screaming. The first note of the tune is same as the fundamental pitch (F0) of the patient's utterances. We compiled four types of tunes (chords, cadences, Japanese school songs, and phrases created from the patients' utterances) into a database. The cadences were selected from established music scores and began with an unsteady or/and agitated chord in order to resonate with the patient's mental instability. We conducted a case study to investigate how MusiCuddle changes a patient's behaviors. In the case study, the pitches extracted from the patient's utterances were varied and wide-ranging. We thought her level of agitation might be reflected in her pitches. Pitch differences in the first note affect and change the entire mood of the music. Therefore, it may be said that the MusiCuddle can play music to resonate with his/her mood by extracting pitch from her utterance in accordance with the iso-principle. Moreover, we recorded the patient's utterances and compared them with vs. without using MusiCuddle to estimate the influence of MusiCuddle. The results suggested that tunes presented by MusiCuddle may give patients an opportunity to stop repeating stereotypical utterances. |
| Rights: | 社団法人 情報処理学会, Chika Oshima, Naoki Itou, Kazushi Nishimoto, Kiyoshi Yasuda, Naohito Hosoi, Hiromi Yamashita, Koichi Nakayama, and Etuso Horikawa, Journal of Information Processing, 21(2), 2013, 283-294. ここに掲載した著作物の利用に関する注意: 本著作物の著作権は（社）情報処理学会に帰属します。本著作物は著作権者である情報処理学会の許可のもとに掲載するものです。ご利用に当たっては「著作権法」ならびに「情報処理学会倫理綱領」に従うことをお願いいたします。 Notice for the use of this material: The copyright of this material is retained by the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ). This material is published on this web site with the agreement of the author (s) and the IPSJ. Please be complied with Copyright Law of Japan and the Code of Ethics of the IPSJ if any users wish to reproduce, make derivative work, distribute or make available to the public any part or whole thereof. All Rights Reserved, Copyright (C) Information Processing Society of Japan. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10119/11568 |
| Material Type: | publisher |
| Appears in Collections: | z7-10-1. 雑誌掲載論文 (Journal Articles)
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