{"id":50075,"date":"2021-09-12T19:05:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T19:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moraeslab.com\/biapt\/?p=50075"},"modified":"2021-09-29T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T13:52:00","slug":"biomusic-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moraeslab.com\/biapt\/biomusic-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Biomusic Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biomusic is a novel technology that translates significant changes in physiological signals into musical output.\u00a0 Biomusic has been shown to increase the sense of presence and personhood of persons who have diverse communicative capacities by enabling others to \u201ctune in\u201d to meaningful changes in an individual\u2019s physiological state.\u00a0 It pushes the boundaries circumscribing subjectivity by offering a potential new mode of becoming aware of others\u2019 reactions, presence and sensitivities.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biomusic consists of a wearable sensor that is attached to the fingertip or the wrist, and an Android phone application.\u00a0 The sensor records three signals of the autonomic nervous system: electrodermal activity (EDA), peripheral skin temperature, and blood volume pulse.\u00a0 Salient features are extracted from each physiological signal and mapped onto a musical or a sonic output.\u00a0 Individual users are able to customize their biomusic according to their sensitivities and preferences.\u00a0 Existing sonifications have been inspired by jazz music, classical music, ambient nature sounds, and urban soundscapes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using a participatory design approach, the BIAPT lab is developing biomusic with a variety of users, including individuals with autism, individuals with dementia, parents of children in complex continuing care, and individuals in pediatric palliative care.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biomusic is a novel technology that translates significant changes in physiological signals into musical output.\u00a0 Biomusic has been shown to increase the sense of presence and personhood of persons who have diverse communicative capacities by enabling others to \u201ctune in\u201d to meaningful changes in an individual\u2019s physiological state.\u00a0 It pushes the boundaries circumscribing subjectivity by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":50076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biomusic","category-current-projects"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moraeslab.com\/biapt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moraeslab.com\/biapt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moraeslab.com\/biapt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moraeslab.com\/biapt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moraeslab.com\/biapt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.moraeslab.com\/biapt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50078,"href":"https:\/\/www.moraeslab.com\/biapt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50075\/revisions\/50078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moraeslab.com\/biapt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moraeslab.com\/biapt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moraeslab.com\/biapt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moraeslab.com\/biapt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}