Radio Me: Real-time Radio Remixing for people with mild to moderate dementia who live alone, incorporating Agitation Reduction, and Reminders

“Radio Me”项目将为独居的轻度至中度痴呆症患者（以下简称“PWD”）提供一种辅助设备，以提醒他们的记忆，减少他们的躁动。在残疾人士的年龄范围内，收听广播是最常见的，而主流广播分为两部分：播放音乐和dj的语音。因此，它提供了一个涉及语音和音乐的界面，并且是PWD所熟悉的界面。Radio Me （RM）是一个将这些自然的声音和音乐元素映射到记忆和激动的综合辅助设备上的系统。RM将启用广播式电台作为人机交互的模式，以支援独居的残疾人士。标题Radio Me指的是这个系统，而不是由实时生成的混音产生的音频。设想如下的功能示例：默认情况下，通过扬声器的RM音频输出将听起来像现场本地广播。所以，当PWD早上打开收音机时，一开始听起来就像他们的本地电台。然而，在某个预先确定的点（由PWD或他们的护理人员输入电子日记），在歌曲开始时，一个类似DJ的声音无缝地覆盖了真正的DJ，并提醒听者喝水。过了一会儿，收音机提醒听众吃午饭。很快，RM检测到听者变得焦躁不安（通过佩戴在手腕上的传感器）。它会覆盖下一个DJ歌曲选择，并从用户的个人歌曲库中选择一首歌，这可能会让他们平静下来。它可以一直播放安抚材料，直到它检测到用户已经平静下来。RM可以为听众提供比普通广播电台更频繁的日期/时间检查，并提醒他们吃药，参加记忆咖啡馆等。这个项目是及时的，因为：(1)它解决了痴呆症，这是英国主要的国家健康和护理重点之一；(2)它解决了英国的护理职业危机。

The Radio Me project will deliver an aid for people with mild to moderate dementia (henceforth referred to as PWD) living alone in their homes, to provide memory reminders and agitation reduction. Radio listening is most common in the age range of PWD, and mainstream radio has two parts: played music, and spoken voice by DJs. Thus, it provides an interface involving voice and music, and one that is familiar to PWD. Radio Me (RM) is a system that maps these natural voice and music elements onto integrated aids for memory and agitation. RM will enable broadcast-style radio as a mode of human-computer interaction to support PWD who live alone in their own homes. The title Radio Me refers to the system rather than the audio resulting from the real-time generative remixing.An example of functionality is envisaged as follows: RM audio output through the speakers will, by default, sound like the live local radio. So, when the PWD switches on the radio in the morning, it initially sounds like their local station. However, at some pre-decided point (as entered into an electronic diary by PWD or their carer), and at the start of a song, a DJ-like voice seamlessly overrides the real DJ and reminds the listener to hydrate. A little later, the radio reminds the listener to eat lunch. Soon RM detects that the listener is becoming agitated (via a worn wrist-sensor). It overrides the next DJ song choice and selects a song from the user's personal library, which is known is likely to calm them. It can keep playing calming material until it detects the user has calmed. RM can give more frequent date / time checks for the listener than a normal radio station, and remind them to take their medication, to attend a Memory Café, etc.The project is timely because: (1) it addresses dementia, one of the UK's major national health and care priorities; (2) it addresses the UK's care profession crisis.