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

Radio Me项目将为独自生活在家中的轻度至中度痴呆症(以下简称PWD)患者提供帮助，以提醒他们的记忆，减少焦虑。听广播在残障人群中最为普遍，主流广播有两部分：播放的音乐和DJ的有声。因此，它提供了一个涉及语音和音乐的界面，也是PWD熟悉的界面。Radio Me(RM)是一个系统，它将这些自然的声音和音乐元素映射到集成的记忆和激动辅助工具上。RM将使广播式无线电成为一种人机交互模式，以支持独自生活在自己家中的残疾人士。标题Radio Me指的是系统，而不是实时生成混音产生的音频。功能的一个例子设想如下：默认情况下，通过扬声器输出的RM音频听起来像现场直播的本地电台。所以，当残疾人早上打开收音机时，一开始听起来就像他们当地的电台。然而，在某个预先确定的时间点(就像PWD或他们的照顾者在电子日记中输入的那样)，在一首歌的开头，一个类似DJ的声音无缝地覆盖了真正的DJ，并提醒听众补充水分。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(通过一个磨损的手腕传感器)。它覆盖下一首DJ歌曲选择，并从用户的个人曲库中选择一首歌曲，这可能会让他们平静下来。它可以一直播放镇静材料，直到它检测到用户已经镇静。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，并提醒他们服用药物，参加记忆咖啡馆等。该项目是及时的，因为：(1)它解决了痴呆症，这是英国主要的国家健康和护理优先事项之一；(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.