Wii GAME TECHNOLOGY FOR MUSIC THERAPY : A FIRST EXPERIMENT WITH CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS

Samuel Benveniste (1) , Pierre Jouvelot (1) , Renaud Michel (2, 3)

1 CRI - Centre de Recherche en Informatique
2 IEP
3 UPD5 Psychologie - Université Paris Descartes – Institut de psychologie

We present a first, proof­of­concept experiment of the MAWii music therapy system, which uses Wiimotes as virtual instruments. This experiment involves four groups of children suffering from behavioral disorders and currently treated in a day hospital in Paris. Preliminary analysis shows that the system is robust, that patients were strongly motivated by it and that their behaviors and verbal expressions had rich psychodynamic content. Future work will entail further experimentation to explore new venues for game technology in music therapy, to assess the therapeutic value of our approach and to automatically extract pertinent data from therapy session recordings

Mots clés: Group music therapy; behavioral disorders; serious games; Wiimote; motivation

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Musique, musicologie et arts de la scène

Samuel Benveniste, Pierre Jouvelot, Renaud Michel. Wii GAME TECHNOLOGY FOR MUSIC THERAPY : A FIRST EXPERIMENT WITH CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS. Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, MCCIS'08 (Gaming), Jul 2008, Amsterdam, Netherlands. pp.133-137. ⟨hal-00830279⟩