title: Designing auditory cues for Parkinson's disease gait rehabilitation.
abstract: Recent works have proved that Parkinson's disease (PD) patients can be largely benefit by performing rehabilitation exercises based on audio cueing and music therapy. Specially, gait can benefit from repetitive sessions of exercises using auditory cues. Nevertheless, all the experiments are based on the use of a metronome as auditory stimuli. Within this work, Human-Computer Interaction methodologies have been used to design new cues that could benefit the long-term engagement of PD patients in these repetitive routines. The study has been also extended to commercial music and musical pieces by analyzing features and characteristics that could benefit the engagement of PD patients to rehabilitation tasks.
authors.forename: Jorge
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cancela
authors.forename: Eugenio M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Moreno
authors.forename: Maria T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Arredondo
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bonato
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003463:Cues; D005081:Exercise Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005684:Gait; D020233:Gait Disorders, Neurologic / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009147:Music Therapy; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D055815:Young Adult