Walking Support System based on Musical Communication
Y. Kurizuka, Yoshihiro Miyake, Yohei Kobayashi · Transactions of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers · 2005
Mutual adaptation process in musical communication is often used for walking support, but this kind of supporting system has not been realized yet. The purpose of this research is to construct walking support system using a musical communication process. Our strategy is to extend Walk-Mate system, which realizes mutual adaptation process between human and virtual walker by exchanging step sound. We replaced this step sound to the music performance and showed the effectiveness in the experiment of walking support. The stability of gate cycle was improved in the both music performance condition and step sound condition. But in the music condition, the improvement of stability remained after the support walking. And the spectrum of gate cycle became similar to that of normal walking under the music condition. These results suggest the effectiveness of this proposed system for a walking support.