Music To My Mind
CAD Model of Book
The squares in the right image represent the capacitive touch sensors that the user touches to play the phrase.
The spring 2020 semester was crazy, but a constant through it all was GEEN 3400, Innovation and Invention Projects Class. This class emphasized the importance of business within engineering and how the two are so interconnected.
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During this class, our team developed digital prototypes for an interactive book to assist aphasia patients with speaking using music therapy practices. Melodic Intonation Therapy, or MIT, is a specific type of music therapy that we have incorporated into our design. This device is created with various sensors and sung audio output for different words and phrases. A user will open up the book, hold the MIT-device in their left hand, tap a button correlating to a word or phrase, and sing along to that word or phrase. The user can use the repetition to practice, or simply use the book to communicate with loved ones. In order to engage people in practice, we provide an option to create completely customizable pages; so people can practice saying the things that are personalized for their lives.
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Because of the pandemic, we were able to create digital prototypes shown above to show the goal of the product. Below are links to documents that we created for this product.
Example of Custom Page
Each book has the option to be completely custom so that the user can communicate about what is most important to them.
Circuit Diagram
Each button plays a different phrase for the book. A physical prototype would have capacitive touch sensors instead of traditional buttons.