Development of a support device that allows people with disabilities to fulfill their desire to playing a instruments and not only for learning but also for rehabilitation.

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 18K18642
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Medium-sized Section 9:Education and related fields
• Research Institution: Mie University
• Principal Investigator: Nishinohira Yukiko 三重大学, 工学研究科, リサーチフェロー (40782660)
• Project Period (FY): 2018-06-29 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 楽器演奏支援装置 / 上肢障害者 / リハビリ / 音楽教育

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Up until now, musical instrument performance support has not considered the long-term involvement of people with upper limb disabilities in the instrument they wish to practice, the improvement of their playing techniques, or the focus on the instrument.　The basic concept of this study is “learning using musical instruments” and the research has clarified the support necessary for people with disabilities to independently practice playing musical instruments.
Additionally, we proposed F-Ready, a musical instrument performance support device that allows people with disabilities to play musical instruments immediately without rehabilitation, and does not provide support for improving performance skills.
Long-term usage experiments have suggested that people with disabilities can use F-Ready to independently engage in long-term musical instrument performance practice experiments.

Free Research Field

福祉工学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究は、障がい者に、楽器演奏の学習のみでなく動作のリハビリも同時にしようとするところに新しく意義があるものであると考える。本研究で開発した楽器演奏支援装置により、リハビリと学習が同時にできるようになり、健常者がする楽器演奏ができるようになる学習の楽しさを「リハビリ」にまで広げられ、演奏の中に組み込まれたリハビリ動作を楽しんで実施することができる。本研究での効果は、このような学習とリハビリを織り交ぜてリハビリ効果を高めることが期待でき、意義があると考えられる。