TY - GEN
T1 - A prototype system of remote music therapy using the latest communication technology in Japan
AU - Kosugi, Naoko
AU - Kodama, Naoki
AU - Shimizu, Sachiko
AU - Saruwatari, Shunsuke
AU - Terada, Tsutomu
AU - Kazui, M. D.Hiroaki
AU - Yamashita, M. D.Koichi
AU - Kawashima, Hideyuki
AU - Hata, Masayuki
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This paper describes a prototype system of remote music therapy for elderly people with dementia using the latest communication technology in Japan. The system uses the latest high-speed optical network, called NGN (Next Generation Network) and the latest terminal especially for audio data communication called Hikari DUETTO NY1, which was released at the end of the last year. We did an experiment of the system using the real communication environment in this January between Tokyo and Osaka. The communication time of the system between Tokyo and Osaka was about 25.5 msec. Thus, we confirmed that the system was able to provide almost real-time audio data communication. Based on the result, the feasibility of music therapy activities, such as singing and exercises with music, using the system was examined. We confirmed that the singing activity which is the most important one in the music therapy was feasible.
AB - This paper describes a prototype system of remote music therapy for elderly people with dementia using the latest communication technology in Japan. The system uses the latest high-speed optical network, called NGN (Next Generation Network) and the latest terminal especially for audio data communication called Hikari DUETTO NY1, which was released at the end of the last year. We did an experiment of the system using the real communication environment in this January between Tokyo and Osaka. The communication time of the system between Tokyo and Osaka was about 25.5 msec. Thus, we confirmed that the system was able to provide almost real-time audio data communication. Based on the result, the feasibility of music therapy activities, such as singing and exercises with music, using the system was examined. We confirmed that the singing activity which is the most important one in the music therapy was feasible.
KW - dementia
KW - elderly people
KW - remote music therapy
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U2 - 10.1145/2539150.2539265
DO - 10.1145/2539150.2539265
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84896821584
SN - 9781450321136
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 671
EP - 675
BT - Proceedings - 15th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-Based Applications and Services, iiWAS 2013
T2 - 15th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-Based Applications and Services, iiWAS 2013
Y2 - 2 December 2013 through 4 December 2013
ER -