HAIDA: Biometric technological therapy tools for neurorehabilitation of Cognitive Impairment

TL;DR

HAIDA is a multi-platform system integrating biometric analysis and musical therapy tools to support cognitive impairment treatment, currently in active use and data collection.

Contribution

This work introduces HAIDA, a novel integrated system combining biometric analysis with musical therapy for neurorehabilitation of cognitive impairments.

Findings

System is currently in use and collecting data.

Integrates biometric, speech, and activity analysis.

Supports non-pharmacological treatment for dementia.

Abstract

Dementia, and specially Alzheimer s disease (AD) and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) are one of the most important diseases suffered by elderly population. Music therapy is one of the most widely used non-pharmacological treatment in the field of cognitive impairments, given that music influences their mood, behavior, the decrease of anxiety, as well as facilitating reminiscence, emotional expressions and movement. In this work we present HAIDA, a multi-platform support system for Musical Therapy oriented to cognitive impairment, which includes not only therapy tools but also non-invasive biometric analysis, speech, activity and hand activity. At this moment the system is on use and recording the first sets of data.