Towards a System Supporting Music Feedback Exercise in Physical Tele-Rehabilitation

For decades music has been used successfully in sports and especially physical rehabilitation in order to motivate people and increase satisfaction in the actual workout. The novel principle of "Music Feedback Exercise (MFE)" allows to individually influence the music according to the actual dynamics a person generates — more dynamics in the movement leads to more dynamics in the music and vice versa. Research by Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences gives evidence of the positive arousal effects on persons. In a cooperation with Anhalt University of Applied Sciences a technical framework has been developed that is able to receive and analyze respective sensor data and to create musical output according to the generated intensity. This paper documents under which assumptions and how the MFE principle has been implemented into the Soundjack (also known as fast-music) core technology in order to take advantage of the versatile GUI options, low-latency audio streaming and also networking features.