2023) Music Therapy Application
(2022.11 - 2023.03)
Music therapy application for Parkinson’s patients
This research was a collaborative project between the Human-Computer Interaction Lab in the Computer Science and Engineering Department and the Music Therapy Education Department at Ewha Womans University. The goal was to develop an application enabling patients with dyskinesia to receive music therapy in a non-face-to-face setting.
Background
Patients with dyskinesia have a slow response time to stimuli. When responding to rhythm, the gap between the onset of the sound and the actual response time is larger than that of normal people. In 2020, Jin-Kyoung Park from Ewha Womans University proposed a rhythmic cue-based percussion music therapy to improve these symptoms. Due to the nature of dyskinesias, in-person therapy was limited due to mobility difficulties, a problem that was maximized by the 2020 pandemic and needed to be overcome through application development.
Based on the music therapy presented in the above paper, we collaborated with the author of the paper and the lab she was in to develop an application to implement music therapy. The app is designed to make rhythmic therapy more accessible to patients.
- UI design: An elderly patient-friendly interface with accessibility in mind
- Feature: Provide rhythm cues, record response rate
This was the first project I participated in shortly after joining as a research intern in my junior year in 2022. I was involved as a research developer.